Alma 29:13 Textual Variants

yea and that same God hath called me by a holy calling to preach the word unto [this 01ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPQRST|his > this F] people

Here the compositor for the 1852 LDS edition accidentally set his people rather than the correct this people. In the second printing, the correct this people was restored. The 1852 compositor was prone to make this mistake:

Alma 5:54
- wherewith they have been brought into [this 1ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPQRST|his > this F] church
Alma 9:19
- nay he would rather suffer that the Lamanites might destroy all [this 1ABCDEGHKPS|his FIJLMNOQRT] people
Alma 10:20
- well doth he cry unto [this 1ABCDEGHKPRST|his FIJLMNOQ] people

In each case, the critical text will retain the original this.

Summary: Maintain the occurrence of this in Alma 29:13 (“to preach the word unto this people”).

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

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