Ether 13:30 Textual Variants

Here the 1874 RLDS edition omitted the indirect object Shared. Interestingly, the expression “give battle” always has an indirect object, represented below as X, in the Book of Mormon text, but it occurs in three different forms (in the following I provide one example of each type):

• “give battle unto X” (18 times)
  • Ether 13:16: “he gave battle unto them which sought to destroy him”
• “give X battle” (6 times)
  • Alma 47:8: “it was not Amalickiah’s intention to give them battle”
• “give unto X battle” (2 times)
  • Helaman 1:29: “and thus he did head them … and gave unto them battle”

The original manuscript is not fully extant here in Ether 13:30, but spacing between extant fragments argues that Shared was in 𝓞. The critical text will maintain the earliest reading, “and Coriantumr gave Shared battle again”.