Alma 19:27 Textual Variants

Here in verse 27, the 1840 edition replaced the relative pronoun that with who. The reading of the 1837 edition, the copytext for the 1840 edition, shows that the 1840 change from that to who made the entire passage read with only who as the relative pronoun (the original that is marked below with an arrow):

• Alma 19:25–27 (the 1837 text)
  •  and it came to pass that there were many among them
     who said that Ammon was the Great Spirit
     and others said he was sent by the Great Spirit
     but others rebuked them all / saying that he was a monster
     who had been sent from the Nephites to torment us
     and there were some
     who said that Ammon was sent by the Great Spirit
     to afflict them because of their iniquities and that it was the Great Spirit
    → that had always attended the Nephites 
     who had ever delivered them out of their hands
      and they said that it was this Great Spirit
     who had destroyed so many of their brethren the Lamanites

The 1840 change may, in fact, have been unintended. In any event, the 1908 RLDS edition restored the original that to the RLDS text, most probably by reference to 𝓟. The critical text will, of course, maintain the original that here in Alma 19:27; the original use of which will also be restored for the four cases in this passage that were changed to who in the editing for the 1837 edition (only the first instance of who, in verse 25, was original to the text). For further discussion, see under which in volume 3.