Alma 7:4 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
but blessed be the name of God that he hath given [unto 1| ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] me to know yea hath given unto me the exceeding great joy of knowing that they are established again in the way of his righteousness

The 1830 typesetter accidentally deleted unto before me near the beginning of this verse. Yet in the following yea-clause he kept the unto in the same basic construction (“yea hath given unto me the exceeding great joy of knowing that … ”). In the expression “give (unto) someone to know”, the Book of Mormon text elsewhere always has the unto:

The same unto is found in the synoptic Gospels in the King James Bible:

The critical text will restore the original preposition unto in Alma 7:4.

Summary: Restore the preposition unto before me near the beginning of Alma 7:4 (“he hath given unto me to know … ”).

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

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