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2 Nephi 1:5 · 1 Nephi 2:20

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Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 1:5
"notwithstanding our afflictions, we have obtained a land of promise, a land which is choice above all other lands"
Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 2:20
"ye shall prosper, and shall be led to a land of promise; yea, even a land which I have prepared for you; yea, a land which is choice above all other lands"

Shared words: a land which is choice above all other lands

Lehi's deathbed restatement of the Lord's original valley-of-Lemuel promise — exact superlative 'a land which is choice above all other lands' at both ends; promise-in-prospect become possession-in-retrospect. The superlative recurs in God's own voice at 2 Nephi 10:19, in the angel's retrospective at 1 Nephi 13:30, and five times over the same land in the Jaredite record (Ether 2:7, 2:10, 2:15, 9:20, 13:2), where the choice-land covenant binds the earlier nation.

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