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Ether 12:4 · Hebrews 6:19

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Book of Mormon Ether 12:4
"which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast"
New Testament Hebrews 6:19
"Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil"

Shared words: an anchor

Both cast HOPE as an anchor of the soul and call it sure and steadfast. Shared distinctive cluster: 'hope' + 'anchor' + soul/souls + the sure-and-steadfast pairing (KJV 'stedfast'). Variant reported, not scored: Hebrews 6:19 'anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast'; Ether 12:4 'anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast' (KJV spelling 'stedfast' vs Ether 'steadfast'). DISTINCTIVENESS: 'anchor' in the soul/hope sense = exactly TWO loci (Ether 12:4, Hebrews 6:19); the other 'anchor' occurrences in the corpus are literal ships (Mormon 5:18 'without sail or anchor'; Acts 27:29–40). A second, weaker contact both share -- 'within the veil' (Hebrews 6:19 'entereth into that within the veil'; Ether 12:19 'could not be kept from within the veil') -- is reported as a fact but not separately registered. Distribution, stated: 'within the veil' stands at four corpus loci -- Hebrews 6:19, Ether 12:19, and Ether 3:19-3:20 (3:20 in the identical formula 'he could not be kept from within the veil'); the KJV OT spelling 'within the vail' adds five tabernacle loci (Exodus 26:33; Leviticus 16:2, 16:12, 16:15; Numbers 18:7). Different Ether verse, different sense: Hebrews's hope enters the veil, Ether's men of great faith pass within it. Class (c): Moroni's own editorial voice; no source named; origin out of scope.