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Helaman 5:2 · Mosiah 29:27

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Book of Mormon Helaman 5:2
"they who chose evil were more numerous than they who chose good"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 29:27
"if the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time that the judgments of God will come upon you"

Mosiah's kingship letter built its own failure clause into the law: if the voice of the people 'doth choose iniquity,' divine judgment follows (Mosiah 29:27). Helaman 5:2 narrates that condition as met in the letter's own three terms — the same franchise ('their laws and their governments were established by the voice of the people'), the same wrong choice ('they who chose evil were more numerous than they who chose good'), and the same consequence ('therefore they were ripening for destruction, for the laws had become corrupted'). The clause that defined the order's limit is reported as reached. Two related records hold the same Mosiah 29:27 chain and are disclosed, not touched: 'alma-amulek-mosiah-cited' (Alma 10:19 quotes the clause as a standing warning, on amulek.md) and 'mos-kj-voice-of-people' (the phrase's full distribution through Alma and into Helaman 5:2). Helaman 4:21–22 names what is being remembered at the collapse — 'the words of Mosiah' and 'the laws of Mosiah' trampled (4:22).