Alma 46:17 Textual Variants

The 1874 RLDS edition removed the repeated on the here in Alma 46:17, and the RLDS text has continued with this shortened reading. This change appears to be an error rather than due to editing. Elsewhere in the text, we always get conjunctive repetition whenever north and south are conjoined in a prepositional construction:

• 2 Nephi 29:11 and in the north and in the south
• Mosiah 27:6 on the north and on the south
• Helaman 1:31 neither on the north nor on the south
• Helaman 6:9 both in the land south and in the land north
• Helaman 6:12 both in the north and in the south
• Helaman 6:12 both in the north and in the south
• 3 Nephi 1:17 both in the land north and in the land south
• 3 Nephi 6:2 both on the north and on the south
• 3 Nephi 20:13 and from the south and from the north

(There are two identical occurrences of the phrase in Helaman 6:12.) For other examples of this kind of repetition in the original text, see under conjunctive repetition in volume 3.