Alma 36:3 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
for I do know that [whomesoever 0|whomsoever >js whosoever 1|whomsoever A| whosoever BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] shall put his trust in God …

As discussed under Alma 3:10, the critical text will restore the occasional occurrence of nonstandard whomsoever in subject position whenever the earliest textual sources support it. In this instance here, Joseph Smith emended whomsoever to the standard whosoever in his editing for the 1837 edition.

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

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