Alma 20:3 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
[now 1|Now ABCDEFGIJLMNOPQRST|And HK] it came to pass that when Ammon had heard this he saith unto Lamoni …

The 1874 RLDS edition accidentally replaced now with and. The 1908 RLDS edition restored the correct now to the RLDS text. Of course, either reading is theoretically possible; thus the critical text will follow the earliest reading, now.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 20:3 the original now that precedes “it came to pass”.

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

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