Ether 4:3 Textual Variants

Here the 1840 edition omitted the universal quantifier all, probably accidentally since there is no grammatical reason to delete it. Moreover, there are several other passages where all occurs in this same position:

• 2 Nephi 28:11 yea they have all gone out of the way
• 2 Nephi 28:14 they have all gone astray save it be a few
• Alma 30:53 for they have all gone astray after an unknown God

For two examples in the 1840 edition where all was omitted after the helping verb shall, see under Helaman 14:7 and 3 Nephi 29:2. Here in Ether 4:3, the early RLDS textual tradition followed the 1840 reading, but in 1908 the original all was restored to the RLDS text.