Alma 62:29 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and thus were the Nephites relieved from a great [burthen 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMOPQRS|burden NT]

As noted under Jacob 2:23, all original instances of the archaic word form burthen have been replaced by the standard burden in the LDS text (but not in the RLDS text). The change to burden here in Alma 62:29 was first made in the 1906 LDS edition, but that instance of burden never entered the LDS text permanently until the 1981 LDS edition. The critical text will restore the archaic burthen wherever the earliest text supports it.

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

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