Alma 38:9 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
there is no other way [nor 01ABCDEGHKPS|or FIJLMNOQRT] means whereby man can be saved

Here the 1852 LDS edition replaced nor with or. This change may have been unintended since the nor has been retained in two other cases of “no other way nor means” (although in the first case Joseph Smith grammatically emended the no to any in his editing for the 1837 edition):

The critical text will therefore restore the original use of nor here in Alma 38:9. For additional discussion regarding nor versus or, see under Mosiah 27:4; also see the general discussion under negation in volume 3.

Summary: Restore the original nor in Alma 38:9 (“no other way nor means”); similar instances of nor have remained unchanged in the text.

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

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