Alma 25:8 Textual Variants

Here in the original manuscript, Oliver Cowdery initially wrote “and these Lamanites began to hunt the seed of Amulon”. This reading is possible since the immediately preceding text states that not all the Lamanites were involved, only many of them:

• Alma 25:8 (initial text in 𝓞)
  • now this martyrdom caused that many of their brethren should be stirred up to anger and there began to be contention in the wilderness and these Lamanites began to hunt the seed of Amulon and his brethren and began to slay them

Nonetheless, the rather than these is undoubtedly correct since Oliver immediately corrected the these in 𝓞 to the by erasing the final se.