Jacob 4:5 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and for this intent we keep the law of Moses it pointing our souls to him and for [this 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRT|their S] cause it is sanctified unto us for righteousness

The 1953 RLDS edition here introduced an obvious typo, “for their cause”. Parallelism with the preceding main clause supports the original use of “for this cause”:

and for this intent we keep the law of Moses …
and for this cause it is sanctified unto us for righteousness

The critical text will retain the original this in both instances.

Summary: Maintain in Jacob 4:5 the use of this in “for this cause” (the earliest extant reading).

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 2

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