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3 Nephi 27:32 · 3 Nephi 13:19

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Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 27:32
"they will sell me for silver and for gold, and for that which moth doth corrupt and which thieves can break through and steal"
Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 13:19
"where moth and rust doth corrupt, and thieves break through and steal"

Shared words: break through and steal

Internal 3 Nephi inversion of the sermon's corruptible-treasure image. The sermon warned against laying up earthly 'treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and thieves break through and steal' (13:19); at 27:32 the Lord grieves that the fourth generation 'will sell me for silver and for gold, and for that which moth doth corrupt and which thieves can break through and steal' -- the very corruptible wealth the sermon named as worthless is the price for which they trade the Messiah himself. Distinctive anchor within the record: the cluster 'break through' + 'steal' occurs at 3 Nephi 13:19, 13:20, and 27:32 -- confined to the sermon and this echo; corpus-wide the Sermon's Old-World parallel Matthew 6:19-20 carries the same 'thieves break through and steal' cluster. The word 'moth' as a corrupter of treasure is likewise confined within the record to 13:19/13:20/27:32 (corpus-wide the same treasure-corrupting moth stands at Matthew 6:19-20 and Luke 12:33), DISTINCT from the Isaiah moth-eats image, 'the moth shall eat them up' (2 Nephi 7:9; 'like a garment' at 2 Nephi 8:8). 27:32 takes the earthly-treasure form of 13:19 (things that DO corrupt / thieves that CAN break through), not the heavenly form of 13:20. The fourth-generation-sorrow reading of 27:32 belongs to messiah.md (which hosts the fourth-generation chain) -- cross-linked; on this page the pair is the treasure-image's last inverted turn. NOT the slippery-treasures forward-watch (Helaman 13:31 -> Mormon 1:18, registered as morm-samuel-slippery-fulfilled) -- that is a separate cursed-wealth law; this is an internal sermon echo.

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