Here the 1874 RLDS edition introduced a difficult reading, substituting space for the correct time: “and there is a space between the space of death and the resurrection”. This error was copied into the 1892 RLDS edition, but the 1908 RLDS edition restored the correct time. The error may have been prompted by the preceding space in “there is a space” or by the following space in “this space of time”. Earlier in this passage there is an expression of the same idea: “and now there must needs be a space betwixt the time of death and the time of the resurrection” (Alma 40:6).
Summary: Maintain in Alma 40:9 the occurrence of time in the phrase “between the time of death and the resurrection”.