Why does the repeated pronoun your appear in Alma’s discourse on faith?

Thomas R. Valletta

“In lists the Hebrew language repeats the possessive pronoun (e.g., their, our, your, thy, his, her) before each of the nouns to which it refers, a convention that is uncommon in English usage … .

“[Examples] of the repeated possessive pronoun in the Book of Mormon include your four times in Mosiah 4:30, their eight times in Mosiah 11:3, your three times in Alma 32:42, our nine times in Alma 44:5, thy four times in Alma 38:3, and their twelve times in Helaman 3:14” (Parry, “Hebraisms and Other Ancient Peculiarities in the Book of Mormon,” 179–80).

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