Alma 43:24 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and Alma informed the [messengers 1ABCDEFGIJLMNOQRT|messenger HKPS] of Moroni that the armies of the Lamanites were marching round about in the wilderness

The 1874 RLDS edition accidentally changed the plural messengers to the singular messenger; this incorrect reading has persisted in the RLDS text. The surrounding sentences, listed as 1 and 3 below, clearly show that the plural listed under 2 is correct:

Summary: Maintain in Alma 43:24 the plural messengers, the reading in the earliest textual sources (including 𝓞); the nearby text consistently refers to the messengers in the plural.

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

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