Helaman 16:1 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
there were many which heard the words of Samuel the Lamanite which he [spake 01ABCDEFGHIJKLMOPQRST|spoke N] upon the walls of the city

Here the 1906 LDS edition replaced the archaic spake with spoke, the modern English form. But this edition was never used as a copytext, so its reading was not followed by any subsequent LDS edition. As explained under 1 Nephi 12:19, the original text apparently had no instances of the modern spoke, only the archaic spake.

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

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