Mosiah 27:4 Textual Variants

The 1888 LDS large-print edition replaced “they should let no pride … disturb their peace” with “they should not let pride … disturb their peace”. The occurrence of let no here is unique in the Book of Mormon text. On the other hand, not let occurs in three places:

• Alma 26:19 yea why did he not let the sword of his justice fall upon us
• Alma 35:5 and their teachers did not let the people know concerning their desires
• Alma 37:46 do not let us be slothful because of the easiness of the way

Note, however, that in each of these three cases, there is a preceding form of the auxiliary verb do (which is not the case in Mosiah 27:4). The safest solution in this situation is to follow the earliest textual sources.