Alma 12:23 Textual Variants

and the [word 1ABCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST|world D] would have been void making God a liar

The compositor for the 1841 British edition accidentally set word as world, perhaps under the inﬂuence of the following would. This obvious typo was removed from the following 1849 LDS edition (even though it used the 1841 edition as copytext). In two other places the text refers to the word being void (the first is only a few verses later):

Alma 12:26 and the word of God would have been void
Alma 42:5 yea and also the word of God would have been void

Summary: Maintain in Alma 12:23 the reference to the word, not the world, as being void.

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

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