Alma 62:20 Textual Variants

and when the night came Moroni went forth in the darkness of the night and came upon the top of the wall to spy out [in 1ABCDEFGIJLMNOPQRST| HK] what part of the city the Lamanites did camp with their army

Here the 1874 RLDS edition accidentally omitted the preposition in from the phrase “in what part of the city”. The 1908 RLDS edition restored the in to the RLDS text. The critical text will here follow the earliest extant reading, “in what part of the city”.

Summary: Maintain in Alma 62:20 the preposition in in the phrase “in what part of the city”.

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

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