Alice in WaterdeepMar 16

I'm having trouble understanding a pattern. It's my first knit sweater (also first raglan and first cable) so I cannot really tell whether there's a mistake in the pattern or I'm doing something wrong.

I'm working on the yoke increases, with cables worked every six rounds. After working the first cable round, the cable structure is: P2, K4, P2 with a marker in the middle of the cable (as instructed by the pattern).

Then the pattern continues with:
"Round 7: [k2, p2, k until 4 st before marker, p2, k2, slip marker] 4 times stopping before last 2 st."

The last two stitches of the round are two knit stitches of the first cable (circled in red in the picture), so I stopped before working those. The next round is where I get lost:
"Round 8: [k2, p2, M1L, k until 4 st before marker, M1R, p2, k2, slip marker] four times."

I should knit the first two, which are the the first half of cable stitches, so that makes sense. But then purl the other two? I'm confused because wouldn't this break the cable construction?

I would appreciate some pointers, I don't understand why round 7 had me stop at the last two stitches 🥲

(Diagram direction is counterclockwise)

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Show threadAnnaMar 16
@aliceinwaterdeep the cables are at the raglan increases, right? Seems like in this case the error is in the pattern and the k2 should be the last two knits of the cable, not the first- they seem forgotten. The instructions could have gotten messed up because the beginning of round is halfway in a cable, so to do the actual cabling you would have to leave out the last k2 of the previous stitches.
Show threadAnnaMar 16
@aliceinwaterdeep it seems round 7 was copy-pasted from round 5, if you cabled in round 6.
Show threadAlice in Waterdeep

@venite I sprinted to my laptop to check the pattern because i thought this must be it, a copy-paste mistake! But not really. I'm going to paste the first 6 sounds just for reference (it's a free pattern so it's probably fine?):

Round 1: [k2, p2, k until 4 st before marker, p2, k2, slip marker] 4 times.

Round 2 (increase body only): [k2, p2, M1L, k until 4 st before marker, M1R, p2, k2, slip marker, k2, p2, k until 4 st before marker, p2, k2] twice.

Round 3-4: Repeat Round 1 and 2.

Round 5: Repeat Round 1 until last 2 st.

Note: Keep the markers in the middle of the C4F in the next round

Round 6 (increase body + cable): C4F with last 2 st of previous round, p2, M1L, k until 4 st before marker, M1R, p2, C4F, p2, k until 4 st before marker, p2, C4F, p2, M1L, k until 4 st before marker, M1R, p2, C4F, p2, k until 4 st before marker, p2, k2.

So round 5 and 7 are essentially the same, but they're written differently so maybe not a copy-paste error but some form of it? 🫠

Mar 16 at 10:13amWeb
Show threadmilla🧷Mar 16
@aliceinwaterdeep @venite Does Round 8 have cable turns? That may be why the Round 7 tells you to stop 2st before the marker, if you need to move them for the cable.
Show threadAlice in WaterdeepMar 16
@milla No, round 8 is in my original post and it's just an increase round 🤔