Alma 63:4 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and it came to pass that in the [thirtyeth 0|thirty 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] and seventh year of the reign of the judges …

𝓞 reads “thirtyeth & seventh year”. This nonstandard compound ordinal number may actually be original to the Book of Mormon text (although it could also be a scribal error). As discussed under Alma 52:15, the critical text will restore the earliest reading, “in the thirtieth and seventh year”, here in Alma 63:4.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 5

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