Alma 57:6 Textual Variants

The original manuscript is not extant here. In this particular case, spacing between extant portions of 𝓞 is sufficiently long that it is difficult to tell whether unto or to would fit best in the lacuna. Oliver Cowdery initially copied the text into 𝓟 as to; then he crossed out the to and supralinearly inserted unto. The correction appears to be virtually immediate since there is no change in the level of ink flow. Elsewhere in the text, there are ten occurrences of “brought (un)to X”, where X is a person, and in all cases but one (which is marked below with an asterisk) the preposition is unto:

• Jacob 5:75 and it hath brought unto me again the natural fruit
• Omni 1:20 there was a large stone brought unto him
• Alma 34:31 immediately shall the great plan of redemption be brought about unto you
• Alma 42:18 and a just law given which brought remorse of conscience unto man
• * Alma 54:4 the same who had brought an epistle to Moroni
• Alma 56:27 there was brought unto us many provisions
• 3 Nephi 17:9 as they were brought forth unto him
• 3 Nephi 17:12 till they had all been brought unto him
• 3 Nephi 26:8 that they may be brought again unto this people
• Ether 10:3 which brought peace again unto his father

Either unto or to is possible, but the archaically styled unto is preferred. For a list of places in the manuscripts where Oliver Cowdery accidentally wrote to in place of unto, see under Jacob 2:17.