Alma 62:14 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
Moroni and Parhoron ... took their march with a large body of men [towards 1ABCDEFGIJLMNOPQRST|toward HK] the land of Nephihah

Here the 1874 RLDS edition replaced towards with toward; the 1908 RLDS edition restored the original towards. As discussed under 1 Nephi 5:22, the critical text will follow the earliest extant sources in choosing between towards and toward.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 62:14 the form towards, the reading of the earliest extant source, the printer’s manuscript.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 5

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