Alma 53:1 Textual Variants

The 1892 RLDS edition unintentionally replaced the plural labors with the singular labor. The RLDS text has continued with the secondary labor, even though 𝓟 reads in the plural; the word is extant in 𝓞 and reads in the plural.

Elsewhere the text has six other examples that refer to performing labor, of which one (marked below with an asterisk) parallels the language here in Alma 53:1 (both read “perform their labors”):

• 1 Nephi 17:41 and the labor which they had to perform were to look Alma 8:1 to rest himself from the labors which he had performed
• Alma 30:33 notwithstanding the many labors which I have performed in the church
• * Alma 34:32 the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors
• Alma 34:33 then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed
• Moroni 9:6 for we have a labor to perform whilst in this tabernacle of clay

For each case of “perform labor(s)”, the critical text will follow the earliest textual sources, thus labors here in Alma 53:1 (the reading in 𝓞, spelled there as labours).