Alma 21:23 Textual Variants

The 1841 British edition accidentally replaced the preposition unto in this passage with to. The 1849 LDS edition restored the original unto. Either usage is theoretically possible, of course, with the use of to as the more modern alternative. Elsewhere in the text, there are eight examples of “to give heed to X” and eight of “to give heed unto X”. Here’s a passage where both prepositions are used in this expression:

• 1 Nephi 15:25
  • wherefore I Nephi did exhort them to give heed unto the word of the Lord yea I did exhort them with all the energies of my soul and with all the faculty which I possessed that they would give heed to the word of God

For each case of “to give heed (un)to X”, the critical text will follow the earliest reading.