Alma 5:29 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
behold I say is there one among you who is not stripped of envy I say unto you that such an one is not prepared and I would that [he 1ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRST|ye J] should prepare quickly for the hour is close at hand and he knoweth not when the time shall come

The 1888 LDS edition accidentally replaced the pronoun he with the visually similar ye, with possible influence from the preceding two occurrences of you in this verse. The ye is quite unacceptable given that we have he in the following text (“and he knoweth not when the time shall come”).

Summary: Maintain the original pronoun he in Alma 5:29 (“and I would that he should prepare quickly”).

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

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