Mosiah 26:4 Textual Variants

and they were a separate people as to their faith and remained so ever after even in their carnal [and sinful 1ABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRST| K] state

The 1892 RLDS edition accidentally omitted the conjunct “and sinful” in this passage; it was restored in the subsequent RLDS edition (1908). Although this particular conjunctive construct is unique to the text, there are similar ones in the text:

Mosiah 25:11 their sinful and polluted state
Mosiah 27:25 their carnal and fallen state
Alma 26:17 our awful sinful and polluted state

Summary: Maintain in Mosiah 26:4 the conjunctive adjectival construction “their carnal and sinful state”.

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

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