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Ether 15:11 · Mormon 6:6

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Book of Mormon Ether 15:11
"the hill Ramah; and it was that same hill where my father Mormon did hide up the records unto the Lord"
Book of Mormon Mormon 6:6
"hid up in the hill Cumorah all the records which had been entrusted to me by the hand of the Lord"

Shared words: the records

The Jaredite last stand at 'the hill Ramah' (Ether 15:11) is the same hill Mormon calls Cumorah, where he hid the records (Mormon 6:6): one hill, two names, two national extinctions - an identification the record itself states in one verse, in the abridger's own voice ('that same hill where my father Mormon did hide up the records'). The hill is named 'Ramah' only at Ether 15:11 in the record. 'Ramah' is otherwise a common place-name — a town in the land of Benjamin — appearing at some thirty-four verses across the frozen Old Testament (Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, 1 Kings, and Isaiah 10:29 among them); all are a different place from the Jaredite hill. The name 'Cumorah' is Mormon-only - 6 verses: Mormon 6:2, 6:4, 6:5, 6:6, 6:11, 8:2. Distinct verse-pairs from morm-few-plates-moroni (Mormon 6:6 <-> Words of Mormon 1:3) and morm-geo-cumorah-many-waters (Mormon 6:4 <-> Mosiah 8:8). Cross-links: jaredites.md eth-jar-extinction-type; morm-geo-cumorah-many-waters. Real-world location of the hill is out of scope. Both ends are verbatim.

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