Jordan / Jordon Variant

Jordan / Jordon Variant

-1 Nephi 10:9

O: jordan

-1 Nephi 17:32

O: Jorden

P: Jordon > Jordan

-2 Nephi 19:1

P: Jordon

A: Jordan

-Mormon 5:3

P: S2 Jordan > S1 Jordon

Discussion: For the first three occurrences (where it refers to the KJV Jordan), Jordan is misspelled. In Mormon 5:3, Scribe 2 wrote Jordan, then Scribe 1 corrected to Jordon in P. Although this could be a legitimate change for the city, because of Cowdery's other errors in spelling Jordan, it is likely that his correction is wrong here.

Summary: Maintain Jordan for all KJV instances and for the city, since it is most likely.

Source: ATV 2: 729; 6:3579, 3627