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3 Nephi 6:10 · Helaman 3:36

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Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 6:10
"some were lifted up unto pride and boastings because of their exceedingly great riches, yea, even unto great persecutions"
Book of Mormon Helaman 3:36
"it was because of their exceedingly great riches and their prosperity in the land"

Shared words: because of their exceedingly great riches

3 Nephi 6 re-runs the prosperity-and-pride cycle in the same year-ledger form as Helaman 3:33-36 (a year of peace 'save it were the pride' that enters at prosperity) but inside four year-markers: 'continual peace' through the 28th year (6:9) collapses to 'the church was broken up in all the land' by the 30th (6:14) -- four years from the peace's establishment in the twenty-and-sixth year (6:1-4) to the collapse; the cited 6:9 (28th year, continual peace) to 6:14 (30th year, church broken up) bracket itself spans two years. Two earlier runs turn from peace to pride across a single year-seam (Alma 4:5-6; Helaman 3:32-33) without reaching this total collapse; the record supplies no measure settling which run is fastest, so the span is named rather than crowned (R2-Q69). The distinctive anchor is the six-word phrase 'because of their exceedingly great riches', which occurs at exactly three verses: Alma 45:24 (already cited on the page), Helaman 3:36, and 3 Nephi 6:10, with a near-variant 'because of your exceedingly great riches' at Helaman 7:26. The pride-to-persecution half of 6:10 matches Helaman's enactment one clause earlier at 3:34 ('lifted up in pride, even to the persecution of many of their brethren'); 3:36 carries the exact riches phrase, so it is the tightest single-verse far end. Named-law far end is Helaman 12:2-5 (Mormon's editorial statement of the law -- 'then is the time that they do harden their hearts… how quick to be lifted up in pride; yea, how quick to boast'), handled in the page's cycle-named section. That ch 6 was composed as a deliberate compressed enactment of the named law is a page interpretive (weigh-this) reading, not asserted here. On the word 'ranks': it occurs earlier at Mosiah 10:9 ('I did place them in their ranks, every man according to his age'), a MILITARY sense (battle array by age). 3 Nephi 6:12's 'distinguished by ranks, according to their riches and their chances for learning' is the corpus's ONLY use of 'ranks' for social/economic stratification -- the page states this accurately, NOT as corpus-first. The riches-and-learning status pairing answers to the 'wise… learned… rich… puffed up' triad already on the page (2 Nephi 9:42, 28:15).

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