Alma 43:6 Textual Variants

Here the 1841 British edition and the 1874 RLDS edition independently, it would appear, removed the repeated a before murderous disposition. This change appears to be accidental. Typically in English, we do not repeat the indefinite article in conjuncts of nouns, but this kind of repetition is characteristic of the Book of Mormon. Elsewhere in the original text, where wicked is conjoined with another adjective, the indefinite article is always repeated:

• Mosiah 1:13 and become a wicked and an adulterous people
• Mosiah 27:8 he became a very wicked and an idolatrous man
• Alma 31:24 they were a wicked and a perverse people

For a general discussion, see under conjunctive repetition in volume 3. The critical text will restore the repeated a here in Alma 43:6.