Alma 42:6 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
therefore as they were cut off from the tree of life [therefore 0A|therefore >js NULL 1| BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] they should be cut off from the face of the earth

The repeated therefore in this verse was removed by Joseph Smith in his editing for the second edition (1837). As discussed under 2 Nephi 5:21, this kind of repetition occurred in the original text (and is retained in some cases in the current text). The critical text will restore such instances of repeated therefore. For a more complicated case, see below under verse 9.

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

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