Alma 41:1 Textual Variants

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for behold some have [arested 0|arested >js wrestid 1|arrested A| wrested BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] the scriptures and have gone far astray because of this thing

As discussed under Alma 13:20, the original text read wrested here in Alma 41:1, but the word was misinterpreted as arrested (either by Joseph Smith when he dictated the text or by Oliver Cowdery when he wrote it down in 𝓞). The 1830 edition continued with arrested, but Joseph emended the word to wrested in his editing for the 1837 edition.

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

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