Ether 13:23 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and he did beat him insomuch that in the third year he did bring him [into 1ABCDEFGHIJLMNOQRT|unto KPS] captivity

The 1892 RLDS edition accidentally changed into to unto; although 𝓟 reads into, the secondary unto has continued in the RLDS text. Elsewhere in the text, there are eight occurrences of “bring into captivity” but none of “bring unto captivity”; thus the original text is fully consistent with respect to into versus unto after the verb bring. The critical text will maintain the preposition into here in Ether 13:23, the reading of the earliest text.

Summary: Maintain in Ether 13:23 the original preposition into in “he did bring him into captivity”.

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

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