Alma 32:19 Textual Variants

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and now how much more cursed is he that knoweth the will of God and doeth it not than he that only [believest > believeth 0|believeth 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST]

Here Oliver Cowdery initially wrote believest in 𝓞, but then virtually immediately he corrected the inflectional ending est by overwriting the st with th. As explained under 1 Nephi 11:2, Oliver sometimes miswrote the ending -eth as -est. Here in Alma 32:19, the critical text will follow the corrected reading in 𝓞.

Summary: Accept in Alma 32:19 the corrected inflectional ending -eth in “than he that only believeth”.

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

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