Ether 10:12 Textual Variants

and the people became exceeding rich under his reign both in buildings and in gold and [in 1ABCGHKPS| DEFIJLMNOQRT] silver and in raising grain and in ﬂocks and herds and such things which had been restored unto them

The 1841 British edition accidentally omitted the repeated in before silver here in Ether 10:12. Elsewhere the preposition in is repeated in conjuncts involving gold and silver:

Jarom 1:8 exceeding rich in gold and in silver
Helaman 12:2 and in gold and in silver

The critical text will restore the repeated preposition in here in Ether 10:12. For other cases where the repeated in has been omitted from noun phrase conjuncts, see under Mosiah 24:1.

Summary: Restore the original repeated preposition in Ether 10:12 (“and in gold and in silver”).

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

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