Alma 56:30 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
we were desirous to bring a stratagem into [an 0A|an >js NULL 1| BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] effect upon them

Here the original text reads “into an effect” instead of the expected “into effect”. Joseph Smith deleted the an in his editing for the 1837 edition. As discussed under Alma 50:30, the use of the an in this phrase is clearly intended and will be restored in the critical text.

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

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