and [desenting 1|deserting ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] away into the land of Nephi among the Lamanites
As explained under Alma 46:27, the original text here read dissenting rather than deserting. The word was spelled as desenting in 𝓟 (𝓞 is not extant), which led the
1830 compositor to mistakenly set the word as deserting.
