Alma 22:30 Textual Variants

Here the 1840 edition replaced the preposition upon with on. The 1908 RLDS edition restored the correct upon to the RLDS text. Elsewhere the verb border can take various prepositions in its complement, including upon and on:

• Alma 22:27 in all the regions round about which was bordering even to the sea
• Alma 22:28 and thus bordering along by the seashore
• Alma 22:29 all the northern parts of the land bordering on the wilderness
• Alma 31:3 a land ... which lay nearly bordering upon the seashore
• Alma 31:3 the land Jershon which also bordered upon the wilderness south

The two examples from Alma 31:3 show that upon can occur with the verb border. The 1840 change to on here in Alma 22:30 was probably influenced by the multiple occurrence of on in the preceding text: “all the northern parts of the land bordering on the wilderness … round about on the wilderness side on the north” (Alma 22:29). Mix-ups between on and upon have been quite frequent in the history of the text. For a list of examples, see under 1 Nephi 12:4. Generally speaking, the critical text will follow the earliest textual sources for each case of (up)on, thus upon here in Alma 22:30.