Mosiah 24:5 Textual Variants

The compositor for the 1837 edition accidentally replaced the name Amulon with Ammon in this passage, probably because he had gotten used to associating Ammon and his brethren earlier in the book of Mosiah:

• Mosiah 21:22 even until the time that Ammon and his brethren
• came into the land
• Mosiah 21:23 he discovered Ammon and his brethren
• Mosiah 21:29 yet Ammon and his brethren were filled with sorrow
• Mosiah 22:11 being led by Ammon and his brethren

Even so, the 1837 compositor correctly set even closer occurrences of “Amulon and his brethren” and “the brethren of Amulon”, all preceding Mosiah 24:5:

• Mosiah 23:34 the Lamanites had compassion on Amulon and his brethren
• Mosiah 23:35 and Amulon and his brethren did join the Lamanites
• Mosiah 24:4 and he appointed teachers of the brethren of Amulon in every land

The correct Amulon was restored to Mosiah 24:5 in the 1840 edition, but because the copytext for the 1841 British edition was the 1837 edition, the incorrect Ammon continued in the LDS text until the second printing of the 1852 LDS edition (where textual corrections in the stereotyped plates for that edition derive from the 1840 edition). Here in Mosiah 24, the text is discussing Amulon and his fellow priests, not Ammon (the leader of the party that found the people of Limhi).