Alma 46:28 Textual Variants

Here the 1874 RLDS edition omitted the definite article the before the word parts; the 1908 RLDS edition restored the original the (which is extant in 𝓞). Either reading is acceptable, so we follow the earliest textual sources. Elsewhere in the text, wherever there is a choice, we get examples of only “all parts”, never “all the parts”:

• Alma 13:23 we have these glad tidings declared unto us in all parts of our vineyard
• Alma 51:9 he was gathering together soldiers from all parts of his land
• Helaman 3:5 they did spread forth into all parts of the land

In any event, the critical text will maintain here in Alma 46:28 the definite article the in the phrase “in all the parts of the land”.