“Moroni’s words and the rending of his coat to make the title of liberty motivated other Nephites to rend their own garments as a covenant that they would not forsake God—the penalty for so doing being that ‘the Lord should rend them even as they had rent their garments’ (Alma 46:21). Moroni then referred to the ancient coat of Joseph [son of Jacob] that was rent by his brothers and cautioned how they too, as their ancestor Joseph, would suffer at the hands of their dissident brethren if they did not keep the commandments (Alma 46:23–27)” (Largey, Book of Mormon Reference Companion, 757).