Ether 1:34 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and the brother of Jared being a large and [a 1ABCDEGPS| FHIJKLMNOQRT] mighty man …

Once more we have an example of a repeated a being dropped, in this instance in the 1852 LDS edition. The LDS text has maintained the shorter reading without the a. The critical text will restore the repeated a since 𝓟, the earliest textual source, supports it. For a list of other places in the text where the repeated a has been omitted, see under Mormon 9:4.

Summary: Restore the original repeated a in Ether 1:34 (“a large and a mighty man”).

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

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