for they shall not commit whoredoms like unto [they >js them 1|they A|them BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] of old
Here in the earliest text, we have the subject pronominal form they rather than the expected object form them. Even so, the earliest text has cases of subject pronouns being
used instead of object forms, as in these examples:
- 1 Nephi 7:6 (“against I Nephi”)
- behold Laman and Lemuel and two of the daughters of Ishmael and the two sons of Ishmael and their families did rebel against us yea against [i 0|I
1ABCDEGIJLNP|me > I F|me HKOQRST|I > me M] Nephi and Sam and their father Ishmael and his wife and his three other daughters
- 1 Nephi 17:44 (“unto they”)
- and ye are like unto [they 0A|they >js them 1|them BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST]
- Alma 14:19 (“to deliver ye”)
- know ye not that I have power to deliver [ ye 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQS|you RT] up unto the flames
The critical text will restore the they here in Jacob 2:33 (and will similarly restore the subject pronoun forms in the examples listed here).
Summary: Restore the subject pronoun they in Jacob 2:33 (“like unto they of old”); such usage is occasionally found elsewhere in the earliest
text.
Jacob 5:13, page 1001, line –2
The original modal may will be maintained, not restored.
