Ether 2:1 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
Jared and his brother and their families and also the friends of Jared and his brother and their families 1ABCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST NULL D went down into the valley which was northward

Here the 1841 British edition accidentally omitted the phrase “and their families”. The 1849 LDS edition restored it. The critical text will, of course, follow the earliest reading with this phrase. Note especially the preceding reference to “Jared and his brother and their families”.

Summary: Maintain both instances of the conjoined phrase “and their families” in Ether 2:1.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 6

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