Ether 14:30 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and it came to pass that Shiz smote upon Coriantumr [that 1ABCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST|and D] he gave him many deep wounds

Here we have another example where the subordinate conjunction that has a resultive meaning (‘with the result that’). Such usage is somewhat unexpected for speakers of modern English, so there is a tendency to replace the resultive that with and, as here in Ether 14:30 where the 1841 British edition made the replacement. The subsequent LDS edition restored the original that. For other examples of this change, see under 1 Nephi 11:29; for a nearby example that occurred in the 1874 RLDS edition, see under Ether 12:14.

Summary: Maintain the original resultive that in Ether 14:30, the reading of the earliest text.

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

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