Alma 12:22 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
all mankind became a lost and [a 01ABCDEGHKPS| FIJLMNOQRT] fallen people

Here the 1852 LDS edition accidentally omitted the repeated indefinite article a before fallen. For two other instances where the text has accidentally lost the repeated a in the phrase “a lost and a fallen people”, see the discussion under Alma 9:30, 32. Also see the general discussion under conjunctive repetition in volume 3 .

Summary: Restore in Alma 12:22 the repeated a in “a lost and a fallen people”.

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

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