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4 Nephi 1:27 · 3 Nephi 18:29

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Book of Mormon 4 Nephi 1:27
"did administer that which was sacred unto him to whom it had been forbidden because of unworthiness"
Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 18:29
"if ye know that a man is unworthy to eat and drink of my flesh and blood ye shall forbid him"

The apostate churches described as violating the risen Lord's unworthiness-rule: they 'did administer that which was sacred unto him to whom it had been forbidden because of unworthiness' (4 Nephi 1:27) -- the passive 'had been forbidden because of unworthiness' back-references the prohibition the Lord gave at Bountiful. Between the two candidate verses (3 Nephi 18:28 / 18:29), the far end is 18:29. 4 Nephi 1:27's two load-bearing lemmas are FORBID and UNWORTHY, and 18:29 is the only one of the two candidate verses that carries BOTH: 'if ye know that a man is unworthy to eat and drink of my flesh and blood ye shall forbid him.' 18:28 states the commandment generally ('not suffer any one knowingly to partake … unworthily, when ye shall minister it') -- it shares 'minister'/'unworthily' but contains NO 'forbid', which is the hinge word matching 4 Nephi 1:27's 'forbidden'. Typed `paraphrase` (rule -> narrated violation; same distinctive lemmas, differing surrounding words), tier textual (both quotes literal). Distribution note: the stem `unworth-` in the partake/sacrament sense sits at 3 Nephi 18:28-29, 4 Nephi 1:27, and Mormon 9:29 ('partake not of the sacrament … unworthily' -- Moroni's later restatement, which lacks 'forbid'); the forbid-the-unworthy command co-occurs (forbid + unworthy) only at 3 Nephi 18:29.

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