Alma 3:14 Textual Variants

There has been considerable variation in the history of the text between the prepositions upon and on (for a list of examples, see under 1 Nephi 12:4). Here in Alma 3:14, the 1837 edition replaced the archaic upon with on, probably accidentally since elsewhere the text uses only upon when referring to a mark being set “(up)on someone” and none of these instances of upon have ever been changed to on. All the other examples are in this same chapter of Alma:

• Alma 3:6 according to the mark which was set upon their fathers
• Alma 3:7 and the Lord God set a mark upon them
• Alma 3:10 and there was a mark set upon him
• Alma 3:13 for they also had a mark set upon them
• Alma 3:13 yea they set the mark upon themselves
• Alma 3:13 yea even a mark of red upon their foreheads
• Alma 3:15 I will set a mark upon him that mingleth his seed with thy brethren
• Alma 3:16 I will set a mark upon him that fighteth against thee and thy seed

Clearly the use of upon is correct in verse 14. The 1908 RLDS text restored the original preposition, as will the critical text.