Alma 37:29 Textual Variants

The 1874 RLDS edition replaced the plural abominations with the singular, but the 1908 RLDS edition restored the plural to the RLDS text. Not only is the plural the earliest reading here, but surrounding usage in this verse supports it:

• Alma 37:29
  • (1) and only their wickedness and their murders and their abominations shall ye make known unto them
    (2) and ye shall teach them to abhor such wickedness and abominations and murders and ye shall also teach them that those people were destroyed
    (3) on account of their wickedness and abominations and their murders

In fact, the use of such in the second conjunctive phrase (“such wickedness and abominations and murders”) directly connects that phrase to the preceding conjunctive phrase.