Alma 13:14 Textual Variants

yea humble yourselves even as the people in the days of Melchizedek who was also [a 1ABCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST| D] high priest after this same order

In this passage, the 1841 British edition accidentally omitted the indefinite article a before high priest. The subsequent 1849 LDS edition restored the a to the LDS text. Elsewhere the Book of Mormon has examples of high priest both with and without the indefinite article a:

Alma 4:18 now Alma did not grant unto him the office of being high priest over the church
Alma 4:18 but he retained the office of high priest
Alma 5:3 to be a high priest over the church of God
Alma 8:11 thou art high priest over the church
Alma 16:5 Alma was high priest over the church
Alma 30:20 Ammon which was a high priest over that people

For each case of “(a) high priest”, the critical text will follow the earliest text.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 13:14 the indefinite article a before high priest, the earliest reading.

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

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