Alma 22:7 Textual Variants

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and I have granted unto them that they should build sanctuaries that they [might >js may 1|might A|may BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] assemble themselves together to worship him

As discussed under Jacob 5:13, the critical text will restore all original instances of the modal might, even in cases where this modal does not have any conditional sense. Here in Alma 22:7, Joseph Smith replaced the past-tense form might with the present-tense form may, but there is nothing inappropriate about the use of might in this case.

Summary: Restore the modal might in Alma 22:7: “that they might assemble themselves together”.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 4

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