Alma 13:17 Textual Variants

Here the 1920 LDS edition accidentally, it would appear, replaced the plural abominations with the singular abomination. This change was not marked in the committee copy for that edition (a copy of the 1911 LDS Chicago edition), which implies that this 1920 change was unintentional.

Elsewhere in the text, we get considerable variety in the number for the conjoined nouns iniquity and abomination:

iniquity and abomination:

• Jacob 2:16 from this iniquity and abomination

iniquity and abominations:

• 2 Nephi 27:1 drunken with iniquity and all manner of abominations
• 3 Nephi 9:2 because of their iniquity and abominations

iniquities and abominations:

• Mosiah 7:20 because of our iniquities and abominations
• Mosiah 12:1 in their iniquities and abominations
• Mosiah 12:7 because of their iniquities and abominations
• Mosiah 28:15 the iniquities and abominations of his people
• Mosiah 29:36 all his iniquities and abominations
• 3 Nephi 9:5 their iniquities and their abominations

This variety argues that in each case we should follow the earliest extant reading. Thus the critical text will restore the plural abominations in Alma 13:17.