Mosiah 27:32 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and now it came to pass that Alma began from this time forward to teach the people and those [that > which >js who 1|which A|who BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] were with Alma at the time the angel appeared unto them

Scribe 2 of 𝓟 initially wrote those that; but before crossing the t’s for that, he deleted the that and then wrote inline the alternative relative pronoun which. This immediate correction is undoubtedly the reading of the original manuscript. Both readings are possible for the Book of Mormon. For a similar example of a mix-up between the relative pronouns which and that (but in Oliver Cowdery’s copywork), see under Mosiah 5:6. For more general discussion, see under which in volume 3.

Summary: Accept scribe 2’s immediate correction of that to which in 𝓟; since either reading is possible, the corrected reading in 𝓟 is undoubtedly the reading of the original manuscript.

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

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