Jacob 2:13 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and the hand of Providence hath smiled upon you most pleasingly that [ye 01|you ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] have obtained many riches

In the King James biblical style, the expected pronoun form in subject position is ye, not the you found in object positions. The 1830 typesetter accidentally replaced the archaic ye with you, perhaps under the influence of the preceding you (“the hand of Providence hath smiled upon you most pleasingly”). In the following verses, we find ye in subject position (15 times through verse 21) but never you in that position. More generally, the text does permit both ye and you as the subject pronoun; thus for each case the correct reading is determined by the earliest textual sources. For further discussion of the variance between ye and you, see 2 Nephi 7:1; also see ye in volume 3.

Summary: Restore the grammatically correct pronoun ye in Jacob 2:13; the earliest textual sources (here both 𝓞 and 𝓟) support ye here rather than the modern you.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 2

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