4 Nephi 1:39 · Mosiah 10:17
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4 Nephi 1:39 reaches back by name to the taught-hatred tradition of the book of Mosiah. The new Lamanites 'were taught to hate the children of God, even as the Lamanites were taught to hate the children of Nephi from the beginning' (4 Nephi 1:39); the 'from the beginning' points back to the tradition Zeniff cataloged roughly four centuries earlier (floor ~355 years: the catalog precedes Mosiah 6:4's 476-year accession, and 4 Nephi 1:39 sits in the 231st sign-year, ≈ year 831 from the departure) -- 'they have taught their children that they should hate them… therefore they have an eternal hatred towards the children of Nephi' (Mosiah 10:17). PARAPHRASE, not shared phrasing: the teaching-clauses differ in wording ('taught to hate' is 4 Nephi 1:39's own phrase — the sole corpus verse, carrying it twice; Mosiah's is 'taught their children that they should hate them'), and the verbatim tie is the hatred-object 'the children of Nephi', a phrase occurring at five verses across the covered books (4 Nephi 1:39, Mosiah 10:17, Mosiah 11:13, Mosiah 25:2, Mosiah 25:12) -- not a rare one -- so the link rests on the taught-to-hate-the-children-of-Nephi construction plus 4 Nephi's own back-reference, not phrase rarity. 'eternal hatred' occurs at exactly two verses, Mosiah 10:17 and Jacob 7:24; 4 Nephi does NOT add a third and this record does not touch that distribution. The -ites of 4 Nephi 1:38-39 (Lamanites, Lemuelites, Ishmaelites) are TRIBAL NAMES for those who rejected the gospel, not Laman and Lemuel the men -- this record links two texts about the taught-hatred tradition, not persons. Note context 4 Nephi 1:38: the rejectors 'did not dwindle in unbelief, but they did wilfully rebel against the gospel of Christ; and they did teach their children that they should not believe, even as their fathers, from the beginning, did dwindle' -- the willful-revolt frame that 1:39 then grounds 'because of the wickedness and abomination of their fathers'.
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