Mosiah 27:13 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
for why [persecutith >% persecuteth 1|persecuteth ABCDEFGHIJKLMOPQS|persecutest NRT] thou the church of God

As discussed under 1 Nephi 11:2, the manuscript evidence throughout the text suggests in the few cases where the verb for the subject pronoun thou takes the ending -(e)th that this ending is a textual error for the correct -(e)st. In this particular case, the -eth ending may have resulted from the fact that the following word thou begins with a th sound.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 3

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