Alma 32:5 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and they have cast us out because of [this 01A| BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] our exceeding poverty

Here the 1837 edition omitted the demonstrative this, probably accidentally. Elsewhere in the text there are five other examples of “this our X”:

We have already discussed one other case where an original this occurring before a possessive pronoun was deleted (namely, from the phrase “this my people” in Mosiah 24:13). Also see the discussion under Mosiah 7:23 for additional examples of “this X”.

Summary: Restore the missing this in Alma 32:5 since this is how both manuscripts and the 1830 edition read.

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

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