Alma 12:10 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
[𝓢① NULL >+ 𝓢② & 1|and ABCDEFGHK|And IJLMNOPQRST] therefore he that will harden his heart the same receiveth the lesser portion of the word

As discussed under Alma 12:8, scribe 2 of 𝓟 frequently omitted the conjunction and. Here in Alma 12:10, Oliver Cowdery supplied the and when he proofed 𝓟 against 𝓞. Clearly, either reading (with or without the and ) is possible in this context; thus there would have been no reason for Oliver to add the and on his own. The critical text will follow the corrected reading in 𝓟.

Summary: Accept Oliver Cowdery’s addition in 𝓟 of and at the beginning of Alma 12:10 (the probable reading of 𝓞, no longer extant here).

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

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