3 Nephi 20:2 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and he commanded them that they should arise and stand [𝓒① NULL > 𝓒⑑ up 1|up ABCDEFGIJLMNOQRT| HKPS] upon their feet

Here the adverb up has been lost at two different times, in π“Ÿ by scribe 2 and later in the 1874 RLDS edition. The RLDS text has maintained the shorter reading. Oliver Cowdery, when he proofed π“Ÿ against π“ž, restored the up. The critical text will maintain the up after the verb stand. For further discussion regarding the loss of up before upon, see under Alma 2:15.

Summary: Maintain in 3 Nephi 20:2 the adverb up in the conjoined predicate β€œand stand up upon their feet”, the reading of the earliest textual sources (the 1830 edition and the corrected reading in π“Ÿ).

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

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