Alma 11:41 Textual Variants

Here scribe 2 of 𝓟 initially wrote three conjoined predicates such that the conjunction and occurred only before the last predicate: “all shall rise from the dead / stand before God / and be judged”. Almost immediately scribe 2 added the and before the middle predicate (his supralinearly inserted ampersand was written without any change in the level of ink flow). Theoretically, either reading is possible in English, but the use of and between each predicate is the expected Book of Mormon style, as in the following example that expresses the same idea as in Alma 11:41:

• Alma 40:21
  • until the time which is appointed of God that the dead shall come forth and be reunited both soul and body and be brought to stand before God and be judged according to their works

The critical text will maintain the and before the middle predicate in Alma 11:41 (“and stand before God”).