Alma 10:28 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
now we know that this man is a child of the devil for he hath lied unto us for he hath spoken against our law and now he saith that he hath not spoken [𝓢① NULL > 𝓢② against 1|against ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] it

Here scribe 2 of 𝓟 wrote “and now he saith that he hath not spoken it”, which is not a difficult reading when considered in isolation. Oliver Cowdery, when he proofed 𝓟 against 𝓞, supplied the preposition against, which makes sense within the larger context. Note that earlier in verse 26 Amulek says “ye say that I have spoken against your law but I have not”. Undoubtedly 𝓞 had the preposition against also in verse 28.

Summary: Accept in Alma 10:28 Oliver Cowdery’s corrected reading with the preposition against (“he hath not spoken against it”).

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

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