Alma 44:12 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and it [brake 01|broke ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] by the hilt

As discussed under Alma 14:26, there are a number of instances of original brake that have been replaced by broke in the textual history. In this example, the 1830 typesetter was responsible for making the change. The critical text will restore the original brake.

Summary: Restore the original past-tense form brake in Alma 44:12 since this is how the two manuscripts read.

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

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