Alma 51:23–24 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and it came to pass that Amalickiah took possession of the city yea possession of all their fortifications and [ 01ABCDEFGIJLMNOPQRST|all HK] those which fled out of the city of Moroni came to the city of Nephihah

The 1874 RLDS edition accidentally inserted an all before the phrase “those which fled out of the city of Moroni”. The typesetter for that edition was probably the one who made this error; most likely, he was influenced by the all in the immediately preceding phrase “all their fortifications”.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 51:24 the phrase “those which fled out of the city of Moroni”, which has no all modifying those (the reading of the earliest textual sources, including 𝓞).

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

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