Alma 32:25 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
for I verily believe [ 01A|that BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] there are some among you which would humble themselves …

Here the earliest text lacked the subordinate conjunction that after the verb believe. The 1837 edition supplied the that; Joseph Smith did not mark this emendation in 𝓟, so the addition of the that may have been unintentional. As discussed under Alma 19:9, nearly all instances of the verb believe have the that for finite clausal complements. But Alma 32:25 is an exception.

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

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