Ether 3:3 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
thou hast smitten us because of our iniquity and [hath 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQS|hast ORT] driven us forth

Here the original hath was grammatically emended to hast in the 1907 LDS edition and (independently, it would appear) in the 1920 LDS edition. As explained under Helaman 10:4, the use of hath conjoined with a preceding hast does occur in the original text. Here in Ether 3:3, the critical text will restore the original hath.

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

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