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Alma 30:8 · Joshua 24:15

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Book of Mormon Alma 30:8
"For thus saith the scripture: Choose ye this day, whom ye will serve."
Old Testament Joshua 24:15
"choose you this day whom ye will serve"

Shared words: this day, whom ye will serve

The record's own citation-formula (“thus saith the scripture”) introduces words no single frozen verse reproduces whole. Joshua 24:15 carries the closing run word for word — “this day whom ye will serve” — differing at the opening pronoun (record “Choose ye”, Joshua “choose you”); Moses 6:33 matches the record's opening exactly, comma included (“Choose ye this day,”), then diverges (“to serve the Lord God who made you”). Which text the narrator cites, the record does not say; this record binds the fuller carrier and names the other. The narrator-not-character framing is treated on the host page.

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