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Alma 7:12 · Hebrews 2:18

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Book of Mormon Alma 7:12
"he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities"
New Testament Hebrews 2:18
"For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted."

Both ground Christ's ability to help in his own experience of suffering. Shared distinctive vocabulary: 'succor'/'succour' + 'infirmities' + 'tempted'/'temptations.' The load-bearing link is the verb 'succor,' which stands with 'infirmities' in one BoM passage ONLY -- Alma 7:12 (other BoM 'succor' occurrences: military relief and almsgiving at Alma 4:13, 57:12, 60:5, 60:8, Mosiah 4:16; and the Lord's declining -- 'I will not succor my people', Mosiah 7:29 -- none joined to 'infirmities'). The companion Hebrews verse 4:15 completes the pair on the other shared word: 'touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.' PROVENANCE HONESTY: Alma 7:11's neighbor-strand 'take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people' has an Isaiah 53 background (already registered as alma-pains-sicknesses, Alma 7:11 <-> Mosiah 14:4/Isaiah 53) and is NOT this record; the 'succor' verb here is Hebrews-2:18-distinctive, not from Isaiah 53. Distinct verse-pair from alma-pains-sicknesses (different verse, different far end, different strand). Type paraphrase: the shared content is the doctrine + keywords, restated in Alma's own words; no coined phrase spans both. Class (c): Alma's own prophecy of Christ (Alma 7:7–13); no source named; origin out of scope. Page-host proposed alma-the-younger.md to co-locate with alma-pains-sicknesses; atonement.md is the thematic alternative.

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