Mosiah 1:10 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
for on the morrow I shall proclaim unto this my people out of mine own mouth that thou art a king and a ruler over [this 1ABCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST|his D] people which the Lord our God hath given us

Here we have another idiosyncratic error in the 1841 British edition, the replacement of this with his. This typo, a visual error, was corrected in the subsequent LDS edition (1849). Clearly, this works better. For other examples where the 1841 typesetter mixed up this and his, see under Helaman 8:22.

Summary: Retain the determiner this in Mosiah 1:10: “thou art a king and a ruler over this people”.

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

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