Helaman 1:2 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
therefore there began to be [a 01ABCDEFGIJLMNOPQRST| HK] serious contention concerning who should have the judgment seat

The 1874 RLDS edition accidentally dropped the indefinite article a before serious contention. The 1908 RLDS edition restored the a. The critical text will maintain the original reading with the a here in Helaman 1:2. See under Alma 25:8 for some discussion on whether contention should take a determiner or not.

Summary: Maintain in Helaman 1:2 the original reading with the indefinite article a in “a serious contention”, the reading in 𝓞.

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

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