Mosiah 7:18 Textual Variants

Here Oliver Cowdery apparently missed the pronoun ye when he initially wrote this passage, but then almost immediately he added it (the level of ink flow is unchanged). The more common expression is without the ye:

• 2 Nephi 13:12 O my people they which lead thee cause thee to err
• 2 Nephi 20:24 O my people that dwellest in Zion / be not afraid of the Assyrian
• 2 Nephi 25:4 wherefore hearken O my people which are of the house of Israel
• Mosiah 2:32 but O my people beware lest there shall arise contentions among you

(It should be noted that the first two of these are from Isaiah quotations.) There is one other occurrence of “O ye my people”:

• Mosiah 29:5 behold O ye my people or my brethren

Oliver’s correction in Mosiah 7:18 is not due to editing since the ye is not particularly expected.