Alma 56:47 Textual Variants

yea they had been taught by their mothers that if they did not doubt [that 01ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQS| RT] God would deliver them

Here we have an example of the repeated subordinate conjunction that which was intentionally removed in the 1920 LDS edition (its deletion is marked in the committee copy). As discussed under 1 Nephi 10:2–3, the original text had numerous examples of the repeated that. Some have been removed, as here in Alma 56:47; but others have been left in the standard text, as in the following example:

Alma 20:1
- and it came to pass that when they had established a church in that land that king Lamoni desired that Ammon should go with him to the land of Nephi

For further discussion regarding the repeated that in the original text, see the discussion under that in volume 3.

Summary: Restore the repeated subordinate conjunction that in Alma 56:47 since repeated that ’s were quite prevalent in the original text (and are still quite frequent in the current text).

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

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