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Alma 54:23 · 1 Nephi 4:33

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Book of Mormon Alma 54:23
"whom your fathers pressed and brought out of Jerusalem"
Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 4:33
"that he should be a free man like unto us if he would go down in the wilderness with us"

Ammoron, claiming descent from Zoram, characterizes his ancestor's departure as compulsion ('pressed and brought out'). The small-plates account frames the same exit oppositely: Nephi seizes Zoram only to stop his flight (1 Ne 4:31), then offers freedom by oath (4:33), accepted with a counter-oath (4:35). The divergence is the textual fact; the reading that Ammoron is DISTORTING an inherited story (vs preserving an independent family tradition) is the hedged inference. Thematic contrast - same event, opposed framing; no shared phrasing.

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