Alma 40:21 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
but this much I say [that 01BCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST|That A| D] there is a space between death and the resurrection of the body

Here the subordinate conjunction that was accidentally omitted in the 1841 British edition; the subsequent LDS edition (1849) restored the that. Either reading is theoretically possible (see, for instance, the discussion under 2 Nephi 30:2 as well as more generally under that in volume 3). In each case, we follow the earliest textual sources, thus “this much I say that there is …” here in Alma 40:21.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 40:21 the subordinate conjunction that after the verb say: “but this much I say that there is a space between death and the resurrection of the body”.

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

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