Hello, and welcome. Before answering your question could I ask you to edit down the patern for copyright reasons?
It you take out everything from MATERIALS, to ABBREVIATIONS inclusive and FRONT EDGING to the end that will be a start.
No, you dont need to knit it together. The pattern still refering to rows and not rounds is the clue to this.
Divide for fronts isn’t an instruction but a ‘Chapter heading’, so follow the instructions that start
Next row K36(41:47:52:58) sts, leave these sts on a spare needle,…and you will be dividing for fronts.