Alma 32:42 Textual Variants

behold by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof which is most precious which is sweet above all that is sweet and which is white above all that is white yea and pure above all [NULL > that is pure 0|that is pure 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST]

Here in the original manuscript, Oliver Cowdery initially omitted the relative clause “that is pure”. Virtually immediately he inserted this clause (there is no change in the level of ink ﬂow for the supralinear insertion). Parallelism with the preceding clauses supports the corrected reading in 𝓞:

Alma 32:42
- which is sweet above all that is sweet and which is white above all that is white yea and pure above all that is pure

Summary: Accept in Alma 32:42 the corrected reading in 𝓞, “yea and pure above all that is pure”; there is no change in the level of ink ﬂow for this correction, and this relative clause is supported by parallelism in the immediately preceding text.

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

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