Alma 52:22 Textual Variants

Here the 1837 edition accidentally replaced the preposition into with in. Elsewhere in the text, we have four cases of “march into the wilderness”:

• Alma 16:7 Zoram and his sons … marched away beyond the borders of Manti into the south wilderness
• Alma 46:31 he took his army and marched out with his tents into the wilderness
• Alma 46:32 he did according to his desires and marched forth into the wilderness
• Alma 56:39 and we took our march into the wilderness

There is only one case of “march in the wilderness”, and in this one case the use of in is appropriate:

• Alma 43:24
  • and Alma informed the messengers of Moroni that the armies of the Lamanites were marching round about in the wilderness that they might come over into the land of Manti

In this instance, the movement is “round about in the wilderness” near the land of Manti, whereas in all the other cases (including here in Alma 52:22) the movement is into the wilderness itself.