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Alma 30:47 · 1 Nephi 4:13

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Book of Mormon Alma 30:47
"it is better that thy soul should be lost than that thou shouldst be the means of bringing many souls down to destruction"
Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 4:13
"It is better that one man should perish than that a nation should dwindle and perish in unbelief"

The 'better that one… than' calculus, both under divine sanction, weighing one against many. Contexts opposite: Nephi's an executioner's warrant for a killing; Alma's a muteness explicitly preferred SHORT of destruction. Shared skeleton 'it is better that… than that'. Whether the later passage is shaped by the earlier, or both draw on a common formula, the text does not say.

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