Alma 8:13 Textual Variants

now when the people had said this and had withstood all his words and reviled him and spit upon him and [𝓢① cursed > 𝓢② caused 1|caused ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] that he should be cast out of their city and he departed thence and took his journey towards the city which was called Aaron

Scribe 2 of 𝓟 here wrote cursed rather than the correct caused. The two words are visually similar. In addition, the verb curse was probably prompted by the preceding verbs revile and spit. Oliver Cowdery, in his proofing of 𝓟, emended the text to the correct caused. A similar scribal error is found later on in this chapter; once more Oliver made the correction:

Alma 8:20
- therefore go with me into my house and I will impart unto thee of my [𝓢① favor > 𝓢② food 1|food ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST]

These errors by scribe 2 seem to indicate tiring on his part, especially since in each case the resulting text was quite improbable.

Summary: Accept Oliver Cowdery’s corrections in 𝓟 of cursed to caused in Alma 8:13 and favor to food in Alma 8:20.

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

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