diff --git a/src/util/error.ts b/src/util/error.ts
index 0e169129ab..8fe76061df 100644
--- a/src/util/error.ts
+++ b/src/util/error.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ const TRAIT = '__liquidClass__'
 export abstract class LiquidError extends Error {
   public token!: Token
   public context = ''
-  private originalError?: Error
+  public originalError?: Error
   public constructor (err: Error | string, token: Token) {
     /**
      * note: for ES5 targeting, `this` will be replaced by return value of Error(),
diff --git a/test/e2e/issues.spec.ts b/test/e2e/issues.spec.ts
index d95f7ca8fa..d37d91104c 100644
--- a/test/e2e/issues.spec.ts
+++ b/test/e2e/issues.spec.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { TopLevelToken, TagToken, Tokenizer, Context, Liquid, Drop, toValueSync } from '../..'
+import { TopLevelToken, TagToken, Tokenizer, Context, Liquid, Drop, toValueSync, LiquidError } from '../..'
 const LiquidUMD = require('../../dist/liquid.browser.umd.js').Liquid
 
 describe('Issues', function () {
@@ -506,4 +506,13 @@ describe('Issues', function () {
     expect(liquid.parseAndRender('{{ 113 | uniq }}')).resolves.toEqual('113')
     expect(liquid.parseAndRender("{{ '113' | uniq }}")).resolves.toEqual('113')
   })
+  it('Exposing originalError in LiquidError #742', () => {
+    const engine = new Liquid()
+    engine.registerFilter('error', () => { throw new Error('intended') })
+    try {
+      engine.parseAndRenderSync(`{{ "foo" | error }}`)
+    } catch (err: unknown) {
+      expect(LiquidError.is(err) && err.originalError).toHaveProperty('message', 'intended')
+    }
+  })
 })