Alma 28:12 Textual Variants

Both the original and printer’s manuscripts have the word yea here in Alma 28:12. The 1830 typesetter accidentally omitted the yea. The 1908 RLDS edition restored the yea to the RLDS text. There is nothing wrong with “yea and even” followed directly by the finite verb (the subject being ellipted). This kind of transition is found, for instance, earlier in the text:

• Alma 1:6
  • and he began to be lifted up in the pride of his heart and to wear very costly apparel yea and even began to establish a church after the manner of his preaching