Alma 12:30 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and they began from that time forth to call on his name therefore God conversed with [men 01ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPQRST|man > men F] and made known unto them the plan of redemption

Here in the 1852 LDS edition, men was originally mis-set as man. But in the second printing of this edition, the correct men was restored, either by reference to the 1840 edition or by noticing that the surrounding text uses the plural pronouns they and them. The critical text will, of course, maintain the reading of the original manuscript: “therefore God conversed with men”.

Summary: Maintain the plural men in Alma 12:30, the reading of the earliest textual sources (including, in this instance, the original manuscript).

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

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