Alma 60:30 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
behold I come unto you even into the land of Zarahemla and smite you with the sword insomuch that ye can have no [more 1ABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRST| K] power to impede the progress of this people in the cause of our freedom

The 1892 RLDS edition omitted the modifier more before power. The 1908 RLDS edition restored the correct reading with more. There is a slight difference in meaning here: with more, Moroni is saying that Parhoron has had power to impede the progress of the Nephite armies—but no longer.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 60:30 the occurrence of more before power, the reading of the earliest extant text.

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

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