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Alma 5:37 · Mosiah 14:6

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Book of Mormon Alma 5:37
"gone astray, as sheep having no shepherd"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 14:6
"All we, like sheep, have gone astray"

Shared words: gone astray

Mosiah 14:6 = Isaiah 53:6 as Abinadi recited it (registered to Isaiah 53:6 as a different verse-pair); the image surfaces in the son's sermon with the shepherd-less twist (provenance Mosiah 17:4). Chain contacts in prose, not registered: 'good shepherd' is heavily concentrated in Alma 5 (seven phrase-tokens: 5:38 x3, 5:39, 5:41, 5:57, 5:60) and recurs once more at Helaman 7:18 (cf. 'true shepherd', Helaman 15:13); 5:38's name-called echo is Mosiah 5:9.

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