Alma 43:6 Textual Variants

For 11 of its 17 occurrences (including the first occurrence in Alma 43:5), the name Zerahemnah is spelled without variation. But there is a tendency to misspell the name under the influence of the very similar place-name Zarahemla. In the textual history, there are seven instances of spelling variation for the name Zerahemnah; the variants are all isolated and were never transmitted into any subsequent edition:

Each misspelling shows in a different way the influence of Zarahemla (e to a, n to l, or loss of final h). The last misspelling, Zerahemna, occurs twice but only in the 1849 LDS edition. Zerahemnah is twice misspelled in 𝓞 but is corrected both times. The critical text will, of course, maintain the spelling Zerahemnah.