Alma 12:3 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
for thou [hast 1ABCDFGHIJKLMNOPQRST|has E] not lied unto men only but thou hast lied unto God

The 1849 LDS edition replaced the biblical hast with has; this change was undoubtedly a typo and was not copied into the subsequent LDS edition (1852). Note that the hast in the following clause was left unchanged in the 1849 edition (“but thou hast lied unto God”).

Summary: Maintain the two occurrences of “thou hast” in Alma 12:3.

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

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