3 Nephi 21:16 · Micah 5:12
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One verse-pair out of the clause-by-clause run in which 3 Nephi 21:14-18 tracks Micah 5:10-14 (horses and chariots / cities and strong holds / witchcrafts and soothsayers / graven and standing images / groves and cities). This pair is registered because it is the run's one SUBSTANTIVE wording divergence and the pair is otherwise verbatim: Micah cuts off witchcrafts out of 'thine hand', 3 Nephi out of 'thy land'. That difference is reported as a textual fact and nothing is asserted about what it means or how it arose. The rest of the pair matches word for word but for Micah's semicolon standing where 3 Nephi has a comma. COUNTS (rule: distinct frozen verses in the corpus per R2-Q36; comma-tolerant per R2-Q32): 'witchcrafts' stands at five corpus verses -- 2 Kings 9:22, 3 Nephi 21:16, Micah 5:12, Mormon 1:19, Nahum 3:4; 'soothsayers' at eight -- 2 Nephi 12:6, 3 Nephi 21:16, Daniel 2:27, Daniel 4:7, Daniel 5:7, Daniel 5:11, Isaiah 2:6, Micah 5:12. The two words stand together in one verse only at 3 Nephi 21:16 and Micah 5:12. ATTRIBUTION -- UNATTRIBUTED: the record never names Micah, and the discourse gives these words to the Father ('saith the Father', 3 Nephi 21:14), so this record asserts the verbal correspondence only; the quotation question is weighed on the page, never asserted. asserted_by is absent (= wiki).