1 Nephi 8:12 · 1 Nephi 15:36
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The superlative — 'desirable above all other fruit' (8:12) / 'desirable above all other fruits' (15:36) — runs across the three chapters treating the tree's fruit. Lehi's original account (8:12): 'I knew that it was desirable above all other fruit.' Nephi's vision supplies the interpretation (11:22): 'it is the most desirable above all things.' Nephi's closing summary to his brothers (15:36): 'that tree of life, whose fruit is most precious and most desirable above all other fruits; yea, and it is the greatest of all the gifts of God.' The a_quote and b_quote are each the exact form in their own verse; the shared distinctive root is 'desirable above all other fruit'. 11:22 is the interpretive middle step (glossed as 'love of God' in the dream-tree record) and not re-entered as a third end here.