Alma 60:5 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
yea great has been your neglect [towards 01ABCDEFGHIJKLMOPQRST|toward N] us

As discussed under 1 Nephi 5:22, the critical text will follow the earliest sources for each instance of toward(s), thus towards (the more frequent form in the text) here in Alma 60:5. The 1906 LDS edition accidentally replaced towards with toward (elsewhere that edition consistently maintained instances of towards). The 1906 edition never served as a copytext for any subsequent LDS edition, so this instance of toward was not passed on.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 60:5 the form towards, the reading in 𝓞 and all the other earliest sources.

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

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