Alma 59:10 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
[& > NULL 0| 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] therefore he retained all his force to maintain those places which he had recovered

In most instances, therefore begins sentences in the Book of Mormon text, but there are 18 cases where the therefore is preceded by the conjunction and. Here in 𝓞 for Alma 59:10, Oliver initially wrote “& therefore”, but then he crossed out the ampersand. There is one other case where Oliver Cowdery accidentally added an and before therefore in the text, but again only momentarily:

For each instance of therefore, the critical text will follow the earliest extant reading, thus therefore without a preceding and in Alma 59:10.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 59:10 the corrected reading in 𝓞, therefore without any preceding and.

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

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