Alma 22:27 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and the borders of the wilderness which was on the north by the land [of 1ABCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST| D] Zarahemla

Here the 1841 British edition accidentally omitted the of in “the land of Zarahemla”. The 1849 LDS edition restored the original of. As explained under Alma 2:15, the original text had only instances of “the land of Zarahemla”, even though “the land Zarahemla” is theoretically possible.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 22:27 the original phraseology “the land of Zarahemla”; the original text consistently uses the of in this particular phrase.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 4

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