Ether 6:3 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and thus the Lord caused stones to shine in darkness to give light unto men women and children that they might [not 1ABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRST|NULL > not K] cross the great waters in darkness

Here the 1892 RLDS edition accidentally omitted the not. Later, either as an in-press change during the first printing or in preparation for a second printing, the not was restored to the text. The negative is obviously required here.

Summary: Maintain in Ether 6:3 the not that was omitted in the initial printing of the 1892 RLDS edition (at least in some of the copies).

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

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