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Abraham 4:1 · Genesis 1:1

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Pearl of Great Price Abraham 4:1
"they, that is the Gods, organized and formed the heavens and the earth"
Old Testament Genesis 1:1
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"

Shared words: and the earth

Opening of the creation account. Shared meaningful language: Abraham's 'the heavens and the earth' beside Genesis's 'the heaven and the earth.' Textual differences reported, not scored: subject 'the Gods' (plural) vs 'God' (singular); verbs 'organized and formed' vs 'created'; Abraham lacks 'In the beginning'. Scoped census (the plural rendering): 'the Gods' occurs 48 times across Abraham 4-5 and 0 times across the fifteen Book-of-Mormon books (both by literal substring count). Class (d) same-discourse rendering (the wiki's standing editorial position): one creation narrative in two hosted corpus texts, no in-text frame connecting them; origin of the parallel outside scope in both directions. asserted_by wiki (the text names no source book).

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