Alma 32:20 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
now of this thing [ ye 01ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRST|we J] must judge

Here the typesetter for the 1888 LDS edition misread the pronoun ye as we. This error was not transmitted into any subsequent LDS edition since the 1888 edition never served as a copytext. Throughout this part of Alma’s discourse here in Alma 32:8–25, he never uses the pronoun we (or its related forms us or our) in speaking to his audience (although he does use these first person plural forms twice, in verses 9 and 17, when quoting someone else). Clearly, ye rather than we must be correct here in verse 20.

Summary: Maintain the use of ye in Alma 32:20; such usage occurs throughout this part of Alma’s discourse.

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

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