According to research by the Zarahemla Research Foundation, in the Original manuscript and the Printers manuscript we find for what is now Alma 54:6: "Except ye repent and withdraw your armies into your own lands, or the lands of your possessions, which is the land of Nephi. . .
The current LDS version for this verse only uses the word "land. By reverting back to the original use of the word "lands" instead of "land" the reader will notice a subtle change in interpretation. One now envisions a general land of Nephi which encompassed multiple "lands." This omission of "lands" by the current LDS edition is repeated just a few verses later in Alma 54:13. In the Original and Printer's manuscript we find: "But behold, if ye seek to destroy us more, we will seek to destroy you; Yea, and we will seek our lands, the lands of our first inheritance."
One has to wonder just how many of these "lands" there were that made up the general land of Nephi and when they came into being. As early as the time of Jarom we find the following written about the general land of Nephi:
The [people of Nephi] were scattered upon much of the face of the land, and the Lamanites also. And they were exceedingly more numerous than were they of the Nephites . . . And it came to pass that they came many times against us, the Nephites to battle . . . wherefore, we withstood the Lamanites and swept them away out of our lands, and began to fortify our cities, or whatsoever place of our inheritance. (Jarom 1:6-7)
[Alan C. Miner, Personal Notes; see also Zarahemla Research Foundation, A Comparison of the Manuscripts and Editions of the Book of Mormon, pp. 180-181]