Alma 34:11 Textual Variants

Here Oliver Cowdery initially wrote “which will atone for another”; then virtually immediately he supralinearly inserted “the sins of ” (there is no change in the level of ink flow). Elsewhere the text consistently uses the verb phraseology “to atone for sins” (seven times), never “to atone for a person”. In fact, there are two other passages that specifically refer to blood as atoning for sins:

• Mosiah 3:11 and also his blood atoneth for the sins of those who have fallen
• Mosiah 3:16 even so the blood of Christ atoneth for their sins

Here in Alma 34:11, the critical text will follow the corrected reading in 𝓞.