Alma 10:4 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and I have also [acquired 1ABCDFGHIJKLMNOPQRST|required E] much riches by the hand of my industry

The 1849 LDS edition accidentally replaced acquired with the visually similar required. The correct acquired was restored in the subsequent LDS edition (1852). Based on the initial words I have, perhaps the phraseology “I have required” was expected, as in Proverbs 30:7: “two things have I required of thee”.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 10:4 the verb form acquired, the earliest reading.

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

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