Alma 31:13 Textual Variants

The earliest textual sources have “a place of standing”; the 1837 edition replaced the preposition of with for. Although the preposition for does improve the sense of the reading, still “a place of standing” is understandable and is, in fact, supported by usage in the King James Bible:

• Acts 25:23
  • and on the morrow when Agrippa was come—and Bernice—with great pomp and was entered into the place of hearing with the chief captains and principal men of the city at Festus’ commandment Paul was brought forth

There is really nothing wrong with “a place of standing” in Alma 31:13.