Alma 43:24 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and Alma informed the messengers of Moroni that the armies of the Lamanites were marching [around > round 0|round 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] about in the wilderness

Here Oliver Cowdery initially wrote around about in 𝓞, but virtually immediately he corrected the around to round by crossing out the a (there is no change in the level of ink flow). As discussed under 1 Nephi 8:13, in most instances the phrase around about seems to have been due to Joseph Smith.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 4

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