Mosiah 26:9 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and it came to pass that Alma did know concerning them for [there 1ABCDFGHIJKLMNOPQRST|they E] were many witnesses against them

Here we have a simple typo in the 1849 LDS edition, replacing there with they. This error was readily recognized and corrected in the following LDS edition (1852). The misreading may have been the result of the preceding and following occurrences of them (“concerning them ... against them”).

Summary: Maintain the existential there in Mosiah 26:9 (“for there were many witnesses against them”).

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 3

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