Alma 36:1 · Alma 38:1
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Internal pair - the two testaments open identically; 38:1's 'even as I said unto Helaman' makes the echo explicit. 'Give ear to my words' is confined in the record to Alma 36:1, 38:1, and 2 Nephi 9:40; the one further corpus occurrence is Psalms 5:1 ('Give ear to my words, O LORD'), the Old Testament psalm-opening the phrase descends from.