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4 Nephi 1:12 · 3 Nephi 18:22

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Book of Mormon 4 Nephi 1:12
"in meeting together oft both to pray and to hear the word of the Lord"
Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 18:22
"ye shall meet together oft"

Shared words: together oft

Command -> practice. The risen Lord commanded the twelve 'ye shall meet together oft' (3 Nephi 18:22); the golden-age church is later reported keeping it -- 'in meeting together oft both to pray and to hear the word of the Lord' (4 Nephi 1:12). RAW-WORDING CATCH: 4 Nephi 1:12 reads the GERUND 'in meeting together oft', NOT 'did meet together oft' -- quoted exactly as raw. DISTRIBUTION: the exact string 'meet together oft' occurs at three verses — the command form 3 Nephi 18:22 and the church-order report Moroni 6:5 ('did meet together oft, to fast and to pray') and 6:6 ('did meet together oft to partake of bread and wine'), the practice-kept legs; the gerund 'meeting together oft' at only one verse, 4 Nephi 1:12; the cognate 'gather themselves together oft' at Alma 6:6 ('the children of God were commanded that they should gather themselves together oft, and join in fasting and mighty prayer'), which is EARLIER in the corpus than 3 Nephi 18:22. ADJACENT-CLAIM BREAK: church-of-god.md's own prior parenthetical called 'meet together oft' 'corpus-first, occurring only here' at 3 Nephi 18:22 -- that is no longer accurate once 4 Nephi is in scope (and 'corpus-first' is wrong for the broader idiom, since Alma 6:6 precedes it). The page prose states the exact-string facts and cross-references this record.

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