Alma 40:11 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
now concerning the state of the soul between death and [the 01ABCDEFIJLMNOPQRST| GHK] resurrection

Here the 1858 Wright edition omitted the definite article the before resurrection. This omission continued in the RLDS text until 1908. Other conjuncts of death and resurrection in this chapter all have the before resurrection (but, as expected, no the before death):

The last one is interesting in that the 1874 RLDS edition, but not the 1858 Wright edition, omitted the definite article the before resurrection. See the discussion under Alma 40:21.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 40:11 the definite article the before resurrection, the reading of all the earliest sources.

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

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