Alma 56:20 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and thus ended the twenty and [six 0|sixth 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] year

As discussed under Alma 56:7, 9, the six here in 𝓞 is very likely the result of Joseph Smith pronouncing “sixth year” without the /h/ sound when he dictated the text to Oliver Cowdery. With high probability, the emended sixth in 𝓟 is the correct reading.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 5

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