“Digging a Ditch Round About the Land or the City Bountiful”

Alan C. Miner

In Alma 53:3 we find that Moroni ordered that the Nephites "should commence laboring in digging a ditch round about the land, or the city, Bountiful." One might wonder if the wording here, "round about the land, or the city" is meant to parallel the two terms "land" and "city" or to distinguish between the terms. [Alan C. Miner, Personal Notes]

Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon: A Cultural Commentary

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