Alma 41:3 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and if their works were good in this life [NULL > & 0|& 1|and ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] the desires of their hearts were good that they should also at the last day be restored unto that which is good

Here in the original manuscript, Oliver Cowdery initially skipped an and. Virtually immediately he supralinearly inserted an ampersand; there is no change in the level of ink flow. The text defi- nitely reads better with the and separating these two conjoined clauses in the larger subordinate if-clause. The critical text will accept the and as the original reading.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 41:3 the corrected reading in 𝓞 with the and separating the second clause from the first clause in the larger if-clause.

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

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