And Joktan begat Almodad, and
Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah (MT: יֶרַח; LXX: Ιαραχ). (Gen 10:26)
On Gen 10:26, Reynolds and Sjodahl wrote the following:
ALEXANDRIAN
MANUSCRIPT
The Alexandrian Manuscript, known
as A in theological literature, also by the name Alexandrinus Codex,
corroborates in an astounding way the form of the name JARED as it appears in
the Book of Ether. . . . The value of the manuscript is very great for the
textual criticism of the Bible, and its reading of Jared (as in the Book
of Ether) for Jerah, a form of spelling in some earlier translation of
the Book of Moses (Genesis), is of importance to students of ancient American
history and not only to readers of the Book of Ether. (George Reynolds and
Janne M. Sjodahl, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 7 vols. [Salt Lake
City: Deseret Book, 1977], 6:27)
With respect to the textual variants in the Greek manuscripts for
this text in Gen 10:26, we find the following from John William Wevers, ed., Genesis (vol. I; Vetus Testamentum
Graecum. Auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum; Göttingen:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1974), 139
Ἰάραχ 961] pr τον f 527 = M; ιεραχ C 108 370; ιεραρ cII(ιεσσαι 18 1°); ιαχαρ 76*(vid); ιαραδ A; τον ιαρεδ 509; τον ιαρεθ 376; αραχ 426 343; ιεραχαμ 44´; ιεζαχαμ 107-125
Note how Codex A reads Iarad; mss 509 reads ton Iared.
