Alma 55:16 Textual Variants

and he went to the city [ 01ABDEFIJLMNOQRT|of CGHKPS] Gid while the Lamanites were in a deep sleep and drunken

The 1840 edition expanded “the city Gid” to “the city of Gid”. The RLDS textual tradition has continued with the extra of. This change is probably accidental and not due to editing. Elsewhere the text has instances of both “the city of Gid” and “the city Gid”, yet none of these other instances show any textual variation:

Alma 51:26 and the city of Omner and the city of Gid and the city of Mulek
Alma 55:7 now the Nephites were guarded in the city of Gid
Alma 55:25 in strengthening the fortifications round about the city Gid
Alma 55:26 when he had fortified the city Gid
Helaman 5:15 and from thenceforth to the city of Gid
Helaman 5:15 and from the city of Gid to the city of Mulek

So in each case of “the city (of) Gid”, we follow the earliest reading.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 55:16 the shorter form “the city Gid”, the reading of the earliest textual sources (including 𝓞).

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 4

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