Alma 33:10 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
yea and thou [hast also 0ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST|also hast >+ hast also 1] heard me when I have been cast out

Here the original manuscript reads “thou hast also heard me”, but when Oliver Cowdery copied the text from 𝓞 into 𝓟, he initially wrote “thou also hast heard me”; with somewhat heavier ink flow he corrected 𝓟 to agree with 𝓞 (his correction may have occurred when he proofed 𝓟 against 𝓞). As discussed under 2 Nephi 11:3, both word orders are found in the Book of Mormon text. The critical text will here maintain the original word order, with also between the perfect auxiliary and the main verb.

Summary: In accord with the reading in 𝓞 and the corrected reading in 𝓟, retain in Alma 33:10 the placement of also after the perfect auxiliary rather than before it (thus “thou hast also heard me”).

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

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