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Ether 2:9 · 2 Nephi 1:7

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Book of Mormon Ether 2:9
"whatsoever nation shall possess it shall serve God, or they shall be swept off when the fulness of his wrath shall come upon them. And the fulness of his wrath cometh upon them when they are ripened in iniquity"
Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 1:7
"And if it so be that they shall serve him according to the commandments which he hath given, it shall be a land of liberty unto them; wherefore, they shall never be brought down into captivity; if so, it shall be because of iniquity; for if iniquity shall abound cursed shall be the land for their sakes, but unto the righteous it shall be blessed forever"

Shared words: shall serve

Ether 2:9 states the serve-or-be-swept-off decree self-contained; the same passage restates it at 2:8, 2:10, and 2:12, and the Jaredite record restates it again at 9:20. Far end is Lehi's conditional land-covenant (2 Nephi 1:7), whose own registered pairing is 2ne-land-liberty (2 Nephi 1:7 <-> 2 Nephi 10:11); this is a distinct verse-pair from eth-pl-god-of-the-land (Ether 2:12 <-> 2 Nephi 1:7). The decree binds 'whatsoever nation' - shown here predating Lehi by a full civilization. 'swept off' occurs as the decree-verb at Ether 2:8, 2:9, 2:10; the war-narrative's own sweep-diction (14:18 'sweepeth the earth', 14:27 'swept off the inhabitants') is a separate, military sense. The land-superlative 'above all other lands' recurs across the Jaredite account at Ether 2:7, 2:10, 2:15, 9:20, 13:2. The decree executed = the extinction (14:25 'the Lord did visit them in the fulness of his wrath'; 15:2 'nearly two millions'); read as the type of the Nephite end at jaredites.md eth-jar-extinction-type.

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