Alma 51:37 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and thus [ended 01ABCDGHKPS|endeth EFIJLMNOQRT] the twenty and fifth year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi and thus [ended 01ABCDGHKPS|endeth EFIJLMNOQRT] the days of Amalickiah

Here we have two instances of ended that were conjointly emended to endeth in the 1849 LDS edition. The fact that both instances were changed to endeth suggests that the change was intended, although that edition left all other instances in the text of ended unchanged. The critical text will restore these two original instances of ended, as explained under Alma 3:27. In fact, the original text had no examples of present-tense endeth.

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

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