Mormon 1:6 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and it came to pass that I being eleven years old was carried by my father into the land southward even to the land [of 1ABCDEFGIJKLMNOPQRST| H] Zarahemla

Here the 1874 RLDS edition accidentally omitted the preposition of from the phrase “the land of Zarahemla”. As explained under Alma 2:15, the original text of the Book of Mormon has examples only with the of for this phrase. Here in Mormon 1:6, the subsequent RLDS edition (1892) restored the correct phraseology with the of.

Summary: Maintain the of in the phrase “the land of Zarahemla” everywhere in the text, including here in Mormon 1:6.

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

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