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Alma 5:34 · Alma 42:27

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Book of Mormon Alma 5:34
"ye shall eat and drink of the bread and the waters of life freely"
Book of Mormon Alma 42:27
"whosoever will come may come and partake of the waters of life freely"

Shared words: the waters of life freely

The 'waters of life freely' invitation closed inside the book: opened in Alma's Zarahemla sermon (5:34, the Lord's voice quoted) and repeated in the dying Alma's testament to Corianton (42:27). Internal sermon-to-testament pair. Revelation 22:17 is frozen in the corpus; that pairing is registered (rev-w1-18). Disclosed 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze: the invitation itself has a third corpus carrier, D&C 10:66 — 'Yea, if they will come, they may, and partake of the waters of life freely' — which carries the plural run and Alma 5:34's verb 'partake', making it a nearer relative than the Revelation singular. The tree-of-life distribution below is unmoved by the freeze (zero D&C carriers). A 5:34 / 1 Ne 8:11 pairing was not registered: the only shared phrase, 'the tree of life', is far too common — counted by verse it stands at twenty-four verses across the frozen corpus (fourteen of them in the record) and twenty-five occurrences (1 Nephi 11:25 carries it twice), too common to register.