Original Chapter 5. Comprising chapter 16 to chapter 19 verse 21.
Now I, Nephi, did not work the timbers after the manner which was learned by men, neither did I build the ship after the manner of men; but I did build it after the manner which the Lord had shown unto me; wherefore, it was not after the manner of men.
In Royal Skousen’s “The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text”, 1 Nephi 18:2 reads a little differently: