3 Nephi 19:2 Textual Variants

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and that he would also [shew 1GHKPS|show ABCDEFIJLMNOQRT] himself on the morrow unto the multitude

The printer’s manuscript reads shew while the 1830 edition reads show. As discussed under Helaman 15:3, the evidence is very clear that the 1830 typesetter, not Oliver Cowdery, was prone to mix up the verb forms shew and show. The critical text will therefore accept shew, the reading in 𝓟, as the original reading here in 3 Nephi 19:2.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 6

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