Alma 41:4 Textual Variants

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raised to endless happiness to inherit the kingdom of God or [to 01ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPQRST|NULL > to F] endless misery to inherit the kingdom of the devil

Here in the first printing of the 1852 LDS edition, the repeated preposition to was accidentally omitted. The to was restored in the second printing, probably by reference to the 1840 edition. The critical text will, of course, retain the repeated preposition here in Alma 41:4 since it is the reading of the earliest textual sources, including both manuscripts.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 41:4 the use of the repeated to in “raised to endless happiness ... or to endless misery”.

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

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