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3 Nephi 11:3 · Helaman 5:30

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Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 11:3
"it did pierce them to the very soul"
Book of Mormon Helaman 5:30
"it did pierce even to the very soul"

Shared words: to the very soul

The voice heard three times before the descent (3 Nephi 11:3-6) is the same still voice as the Helaman 5 prison theophany. The tight verbal overlap is the pierce-to-the-soul clause, which stands in the corpus at only these two verses: 3 Nephi 11:3 'it did pierce them to the very soul' and Helaman 5:30 'it did pierce even to the very soul' (differing only them/even). The paired voice-descriptor threads the same chain -- 3 Nephi 11:3's 'small voice' answers Helaman 5:30's 'still voice of perfect mildness,' both rooted in the chain's earliest form at 1 Nephi 17:45, 'a still small voice' (the only 'small voice' occurrence before Helaman 5). The hearts-burn clause is corpus-new at 3 Nephi 11:3 ('did cause their hearts to burn'; occurring only there) and has no antecedent within the record -- the Luke 24:32 family (Luke 24:32 'our heart burn within us'; kin at Jeremiah 20:9) is in-corpus (frozen) -- so it stands as a diction note only.