Alma 54:2 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
for he desired the provisions which [was imparted 1A|were imparted BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRT|were impart S] for the support of the Lamanite prisoners for the support of his own people

The 1953 RLDS edition has a typo here, namely, impart for the correct past-participial form imparted. The original manuscript is not extant for the final ed of imparted, but undoubtedly the -ed ending was originally there. (The grammatical change of was to were is typical of Joseph Smith’s editing for the 1837 edition. See the discussion under subject-verb agreement in volume 3.)

Summary: Maintain the correct past-participial form imparted in Alma 54:2.

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

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