Alma 49:30 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
yea and there was continual peace among them and exceeding great prosperity in the church because of their heed and diligence which they gave unto the word of God which was declared unto them by Helaman and Shiblon and Corianton and Ammon and his brethren etc. yea and by all those which [had 01ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRST|have L] been ordained by the holy order of God

The 1902 LDS missionary edition accidentally replaced the past-tense had with the present-tense have, an obvious typo since all the preceding language is in the past tense: “there was continual peace … their heed and diligence which they gave unto the word of God which was declared unto them”. The 1902 edition was never used as a copytext, so this error was never copied into any subsequent LDS edition.

Summary: Maintain throughout Alma 49:30 the past-tense verb forms, including the had in “those which had been ordained by the holy order of God”.

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

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