Mosiah 15:5 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and thus the flesh becoming subject to the spirit or the Son to the Father—being one God— suffereth temptation and [ yieldeth 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMOPQRST|yielded N] not to the temptation but suffereth himself to be mocked and scourged and cast out and disowned by his people

Here we have an obvious typo in the 1906 LDS large-print edition; the present-tense yieldeth was replaced by the past-tense yielded, perhaps because of the following past participial verb forms that could be misinterpreted as simple past-tense forms (“mocked and scourged and cast out and disowned”). This error was not continued in any of the subsequent LDS editions. In the original text, we have three conjoined predicates for which each verb is in the present tense (“suffereth … yieldeth ... suffereth”).

Summary: Maintain the present-tense form yieldeth in Mosiah 15:5.

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

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