Alma 12:14 Textual Variants

In the first printing of the 1852 LDS edition, the repeated determiner the was accidentally omitted from “the rocks and the mountains”. For the second printing, the the was restored, probably by reference to the 1840 edition. There are no other examples in the text where rocks is conjoined with any other noun; but in other conjuncts of noun phrases involving mountains, the determiner the is always repeated:

• Jacob 4:6 and the very trees obey us or the mountains or the waves of the sea
• Helaman 11:31 those robbers which infested the mountains and the wilderness
• Helaman 12:9 at his voice doth the hills and the mountains tremble and quake
• 3 Nephi 4:1 and out of the mountains and the wilderness

The use of the repeated the here in Alma 12:14 appears to be fully intended. For further discussion of such repetition, see under conjunctive repetition in volume 3.