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3 Nephi 15:21 · 1 Nephi 22:25

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Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 15:21
"there shall be one fold, and one shepherd"
Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 22:25
"there shall be one fold and one shepherd"

Shared words: there shall be one fold, and one shepherd

At Bountiful the risen Lord claims as his own the 'one fold and one shepherd' formula Nephi had spoken as the close of his gathering oracle (1 Ne 22:25). 3 Ne 15:21 prefaces the clause 'ye are they of whom I said', expressly naming the Nephites as the 'other sheep' of the saying. The shared clause is word-for-word identical but for a single comma. The comma'd clause stands twice in the discourse -- 15:17 and again at 15:21; 3 Ne 16:3 carries the modal variant 'that there may be one fold and one shepherd', there stretched to a further flock -- the tribes 'led away out of the land' (15:15; 16:1-3). The text glosses its own audience's misreading: the disciples 'understood me not, for they supposed it had been the Gentiles' (15:22-23). The Old-World form is John 10:16 ('other sheep I have, which are not of this fold … there shall be one fold, and one shepherd'), frozen in the corpus as New Testament canon. Distribution: 'one fold' occurs at four record verses (1 Nephi 22:25; 3 Nephi 15:17, 15:21, 16:3) and, corpus-wide, at John 10:16 (five in all).