Alma 47:36 Textual Variants

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they became more hardened and impenitent and more wild wicked and ferocious than the Lamanites drinking in with the [tradition > traditions 0|traditions 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] of the Lamanites

In this passage, Oliver Cowdery initially wrote “the tradition of the Lamanites” in 𝓞. Virtually immediately, Oliver corrected the singular to the plural by inserting inline the s ending (there is no change in the level of ink flow). As discussed under Mosiah 1:5, either reading is possible. Here in Alma 47:36, the critical text will maintain the plural traditions, the virtually immediate correction in 𝓞.

Summary: Accept Oliver Cowdery’s corrected plural in the original manuscript for Alma 47:36: “drinking in with the traditions of the Lamanites”.

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

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