Alma 37:27 Textual Variants

Here in the original manuscript, Oliver Cowdery initially omitted the repeated their; virtually immediately he supplied it, inserting it supralinearly (there is no change in the level of ink flow). Either reading is theoretically possible, so the critical text will follow the corrected reading in 𝓞. There are three other examples of the repeated determiner for conjuncts of sign(s) and wonder(s):

• Helaman 14:28 that these signs and these wonders should come to pass
• Helaman 16:23 notwithstanding the signs and the wonders which was wrought
• 3 Nephi 2:1 and began to be less astonished at a sign or a wonder from heaven

The natural tendency in English is not to repeat the determiner for such conjuncts. For further discussion, see under conjunctive repetition in volume 3.