Alma 28:7 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and thus [ended 01AJNPS|endeth BCDEFGHIKLMOQRT] the fifteenth year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi

As discussed under Alma 3:27, there are six cases in the text where a narrative-based past-tense ended has been accidentally replaced with the present-tense endeth. Here in Alma 28:7, the 1837 edition introduced the change into the text. The critical text will maintain the past-tense form in all cases; there are no instances in the original text of “thus endeth the Xth year”.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 4

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