Alma 32:37 Textual Variants

When Oliver Cowdery took down Joseph Smith’s dictation here, he initially supplied an and (written as an ampersand) between the two resultive that-clauses. But Oliver then erased the ampersand, giving two asyndetic that-clauses. Such usage is possible in the Book of Mormon, as in the following nearby example where several resultive that-clauses are strung together without any and:

• Alma 34:39
  • yea and I also exhort you my brethren that ye be watchful unto prayer continually that ye may not be led away by the temptations of the devil that ye may not overpower you that ye may not become his subjects at the last day

Of course, there are also examples of resultive that-clauses where the and is found:

• Alma 32:12
  • it is well that ye are cast out of your synagogues that ye may be humble and that ye may learn wisdom

In each case, we therefore follow the earliest textual sources. Here in Alma 32:37 the critical text will accept the immediately corrected reading in 𝓞, without any and between the two resultive that-clauses.