Alma 62:34 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
insomuch that the Lamanites were encircled about in the borders [by 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMOPQRST|of N] the wilderness on the south and in the borders by the wilderness on the east

Here the 1906 LDS large-print edition replaced the preposition by with of. This error was not copied into subsequent LDS editions since the 1906 edition never served as a copytext. The critical text will here maintain the original by. For a complete discussion, see under Alma 50:25. For the same change of by to of, see earlier in this chapter under Alma 62:25.

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

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