Alma 13:26 Textual Variants

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and it shall be made known unto just and holy men by the mouth of angels at the time of his coming that the words of our fathers [might >js may 1|might A|may BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] be fulfilled

In his editing for the 1837 edition, Joseph Smith sometimes removed the past-tense modal verb might if it could be misinterpreted as having a conditional sense. As explained under Jacob 5:13, such uses of might in the original text will be restored in the critical text.

Summary: Restore the past-tense modal form might in Alma 13:26; the nonconditional use of might is found elsewhere in the original text.

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

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