Alma 56:33–34 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
but he did not march forth until I had gone forth with my little army and came near the city [ 01ABCGHKPRST|of DEFIJLMNOQ] Antiparah and now in the city [ 01ABCGHKPRST|of DEFIJLMNOQ] Antiparah were stationed the strongest army of the Lamanites

Here we have two instances where the 1841 British edition added the preposition of to the phrase “the city Antiparah”. The LDS text maintained the longer reading until the 1920 edition. As discussed under Alma 56:14, the critical text will maintain the shorter reading here in Alma 56:33–34. Earlier in the chapter, in verse 31, the 1920 LDS edition did not remove the intrusive of from the same phrase; in that case, the of had been added in the 1837 edition.

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

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