Ether 6:12 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and they did land upon the shore of the promised land and when they had set their feet upon the shores of the promised land they bowed themselves down upon the face of the land

Here we have a singular shore in the first clause but a plural shores in the immediately following subordinate when-clause. As explained under 1 Nephi 2:5, there is insufficient evidence to emend either of these instances of shore(s) to its opposite number. The critical text will maintain the variation in grammatical number for the phrase “upon the shore(s) of the promised land” here in Ether 6:12.

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

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