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Ether 13:7 · Alma 46:23

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Book of Mormon Ether 13:7
"For as Joseph brought his father down into the land of Egypt, even so he died there; wherefore, the Lord brought a remnant of the seed of Joseph out of the land of Jerusalem, that he might be merciful unto the seed of Joseph that they should perish not"
Book of Mormon Alma 46:23
"we are a remnant of the seed of Jacob; yea, we are a remnant of the seed of Joseph, whose coat was rent by his brethren into many pieces"

Shared words: a remnant of the seed of Joseph

Shared string: 'a remnant of the seed of Joseph' -- verbatim at both ends (Ether 13:7; Alma 46:23). Ether 13 frames the descent as a worked TYPE the text states in its own voice: 'for which things there has been a type' (13:6), spelled out in 13:7 -- as Joseph brought his father Jacob down into Egypt and preserved him, so the Lord brought a remnant of Joseph's seed out of Jerusalem to preserve them ('that they should perish not'). Distribution: the broad string 'seed of Joseph' = NINE verses (3 Nephi 5:21, 5:23, 10:17; Alma 46:23, 46:24, 46:27; Ether 13:6, 13:7, 13:10); the article-neutral 'remnant of the seed of Joseph' = seven of those nine — four with 'a' (3 Nephi 5:23, 10:17; Alma 46:23; Ether 13:7, this record's two endpoints among them) and three with 'the' (Alma 46:27; Ether 13:6, 13:10). The two that carry only the shorter phrase are 3 Nephi 5:21 ('merciful unto the seed of Joseph') and Alma 46:24 ('the remainder of the seed of Joseph'). So the phrase is recurring covenant idiom, not unique to this pair; the record rests on the shared TYPE-language plus the verbatim string, not on rarity. DISTINCT verse-pair from `alma-remnant-of-joseph` (Alma 46:23 <-> 2 Nephi 9:53, INTERPRETIVE -- the seed-preservation-promise convergence): both share the Alma 46:23 endpoint but pair it with different far ends; cross-linked, not duplicated. The New-Jerusalem discourse that 13:6-10 sits inside is hosted in full on new-jerusalem.md (`eth-nj-partner-discourse`); this record is the Joseph-type leg only, hosted on joseph-of-egypt.md. Both quotes are verbatim contiguous runs from their own verse.