Inside the restored Grandin Print Shop in Palmyra, New York, where the first edition of the Book of Mormon was printed. (Wikimedia Commons)
In today’s reading, Alma 27, the Nephites give the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi a land called Jershon for their inheritance, as a place of refuge.
That’s a strikingly apt name for a “land of inheritance.”
See, for example,
Stephen D. Ricks, “A Nickname and a Slam Dunk: Notes on the Book of Mormon Names Zeezrom and Jershon”
and
Matthew L. Bowen, “‘They Were Moved with Compassion’ (Alma 27:4; 53:13): Toponymic Wordplay on Zarahemla and Jershon“
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