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The Sea of Galilee is misidentified in the Book of Mormon as the Red Sea.

Book of Mormon Comparative (West Valley City, UT: Dan Wees, 4th printing, August 2017), 2 Nephi 19:1 – page 120; cf. Isa. 9:1 (AKJV); Mat. 4:12-13 (AKJV). See Dan Vogel, Howe’s Mormonism Unvailed (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 20 April 2015), 84; fn. 9.

“Joseph’s insertion of the single word “Red” into the text has added a geographical impossibility to the passage. Any claim to divine aid in making this alteration would have to be rejected.”

Wesley P. Walters, The Use of the Old Testament in the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, April 1981), 68-69.