1 Nephi 8:17 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
wherefore I cast mine eyes [toward 0|towards 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] the head of the river

As discussed under 1 Nephi 5:22, scribe 3 of 𝓞 often wrote toward rather than towards. The critical text here will follow the reading of the original manuscript (namely, toward ). See the complete discussion under towards in volume 3.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 1

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