Helaman 4:12 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and [desenting 1|deserting ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] away into the land of Nephi among the Lamanites

As explained under Alma 46:27, the original text here read dissenting rather than deserting. The word was spelled as desenting in 𝓟 (𝓞 is not extant), which led the 1830 compositor to mistakenly set the word as deserting.

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

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