Mormon 9:3 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
do ye suppose that ye could be happy to dwell with that holy Being when your souls are racked with a consciousness of [ your 1APS| BCDEFGHIJKLMNOQRT] guilt that ye have ever abused his laws

The original text had your in the phrase “with a consciousness of your guilt”. The 1837 edition accidentally dropped the your. The 1908 RLDS edition restored it, as will the critical text.

The expression “a consciousness of your guilt” occurs earlier in this verse and is followed by the similar “a consciousness of your filthiness” in the next verse. In both cases, the your has not been removed:

There are also two other occurrences of this phraseology in Alma. In every case, there is a determiner before guilt:

Summary: Restore in Mormon 9:3 the your that the 1837 typesetter accidentally omitted in the second instance of the phrase “a consciousness of your guilt”.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 6

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