Alma 26:21 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
what natural man is there that [Knoweth 0|knoweth 1ABDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST|knowest C] these things

Here the 1840 typesetter accidentally replaced knoweth with knowest, an obvious typo. No subsequent edition has continued or reintroduced this error. For further discussion of mix-ups between the archaic inflectional endings -eth and -est, see under 1 Nephi 11:2.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 26:21 knoweth with its original inflectional ending -eth (“what natural man is there that knoweth these things”).

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 4

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