Ether 9:18 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and also all manner of cattle / of oxen and cows and of sheep and of swine and of goats and also many other [kind 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPS|kinds QRT] of animals which were useful for the food of man

In this passage the 1911 LDS edition replaced the singular kind with the plural kinds, which is what standard English requires, although many speakers (including myself ) use the singular kind in such phrases. For discussion of this usage, see under Alma 20:29. The critical text will restore the original kind here in Ether 9:18.

Summary: Restore in Ether 9:18 the original kind in the phrase “and also many other kind of animals”, the reading of the earliest text.

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

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