2 Nephi 9:6 Textual Variants

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and because [man 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRST|men O] became fallen they were cut off from the presence of the Lord

The 1907 LDS vest-pocket edition has the plural men instead of the singular man. The use of man here means ‘mankind’, which nonetheless has a plural referent as shown by the plural pronoun they in the following main clause. There are other examples of the singular man taking a plural pronoun. The following example is one that has never been edited:

Summary: Retain in 2 Nephi 9:6 the singular man and its plural pronoun they.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 1

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