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2 Nephi 2:17 · 2 Nephi 24:12

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Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 2:17
"an angel of God, according to that which is written, had fallen from heaven"
Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 24:12
"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning"

Shared words: fallen from heaven

Lehi himself marks dependence on something 'written' that he has 'read'; he twice says the angel 'had fallen from heaven' in his own words (2 Nephi 2:17, 2:18). The distinctive prophetic 'fallen from heaven' oracle in the record is 2 Nephi 24:12 ('How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer' — the Isaiah 14:12 material, frozen in the canon at Isaiah 14:12), the written source Lehi most plausibly draws on; corpus-wide the phrase recurs only at Isaiah 14:12 and, in a different sense, Job 1:16 ('The fire of God is fallen from heaven'). Which passage Lehi means is hedged; the shared phrasing itself is the registered fact.

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