Alma 8:15 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
for thou hast been faithful in keeping the [commands > commandments 1|commandments ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] of God from the time which thou received thy first message from him

Here scribe 2 of 𝓟 initially wrote commandments as commands, but he immediately caught his error, overwrote the s with an m, and then wrote inline the ents to complete the word commandments. As discussed under Jacob 2:10, only Jacob uses the phrase “the commands of God”.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 8:15 scribe 2’s immediately corrected reading commandments in 𝓟.

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

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