Alma 61:2–3 Textual Variants

The 1953 RLDS edition omitted the conjunction but here. This change appears to be accidental since the original reading is perfectly fine. Elsewhere in the original text, there are 242 occurrences of but behold, none of which were ever reduced to behold in any printed edition (including the 1953 RLDS edition). Oliver Cowdery had a slight tendency to omit but in the manuscripts— but only momentarily. Interestingly, the first of these is an instance of but behold:

• Alma 45:19 (error in 𝓞 immediately corrected)
  • [Behold >% but 0|but 1|But ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] [Behold 0|behold 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] the scripture saith …
• Alma 52:31 (error in O virtually immediately corrected)
  • [NULL > but 0|but 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] the Lamanites were wearied because of their long march

The critical text will maintain all the instances of original but behold.