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Helaman 5:12 · Jacob 4:16

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Book of Mormon Helaman 5:12
"which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall"
Book of Mormon Jacob 4:16
"this stone shall become the great, and the last, and the only sure foundation, upon which the Jews can build"

Shared words: sure foundation

The two-word figure 'sure foundation' stands in the record at exactly two books: Jacob's stone-oracle (Jacob 4:16, repeated at 4:17) and the remembered charge of Helaman the son of Helaman to his sons Nephi and Lehi (Helaman 5:12; the speaker is Helaman Helamanson, Alma 63:11/Helaman 3:21 — not Helaman Almason), four centuries on. Jacob's rejected stone BECOMES a sure foundation; Helaman's rock IS one to build on. The figure 'sure foundation' stands at three verse-loci in the record across two books (Jacob 4:16, Jacob 4:17, Helaman 5:12); corpus-wide the frozen Isaiah 28:16 ('a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation') adds a fourth locus in a third book. The distinctive expansion 'the great, and the last, and the only sure foundation' is unique to Jacob 4:16. Cross-links: nephi-helamanson.md (testament's reception; the speaker, Helaman Helamanson, has no page of his own — folded there).

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