Alma 14:23–24 Textual Variants

and it was on the twelfth day in the tenth month in the tenth year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi that the chief judge over the land of Ammonihah and many of their teachers and their lawyers went in unto the prison where Alma and Amulek was bound with cords and [the 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRT|their S] chief judge stood before them and smote them again

Here in verse 24, the 1953 RLDS edition replaced “the chief judge” with “their chief judge”, probably because a preceding clause in verse 23 has two instances of their (“and many of their teachers and their lawyers”). Elsewhere in the text, no chief judge is ever referred to as “their chief judge”.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 14:24 the definite article the before chief judge.

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

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