Mormon 4:3 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
now the city Teancum lay in the borders [by 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMOPQRST|of N] the seashore

Here the preposition by was accidentally replaced with of in the 1906 LDS edition. Subsequent LDS editions continued with the original by since the 1906 edition never served as a copytext. As explained under Alma 50:25, the critical text will maintain the original by here in Mormon 4:3.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 6

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