Alma 36:25 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
yea and now behold O my son the Lord doth give [me 01ABCDEFGIJLMNOPQRST| HK] exceeding great joy in the fruits of my labors

The 1874 RLDS edition accidentally omitted the indirect object me in this verse. It was restored to the RLDS text in the 1908 RLDS edition. The me is definitely appropriate here since the sentence ends with “in the fruits of my labors”.

Summary: Maintain the indirect object me in Alma 36:25, the reading of the original manuscript; the use of me is perfectly acceptable here.

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

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