Alma 17:12 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and it came to pass that the hearts of the sons of Mosiah and also those which were with them took courage to go forth unto the Lamanites to declare unto them the word [NULL > of God 1|of God ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST]

Here the inserted of God in 𝓟 represents a virtually immediate correction based on 𝓞, unlike the conscious emendation earlier in Alma 17:8. As discussed there, the critical text will accept the corrected reading “the word of God” here in verse 12.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 3

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