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Helaman 4:22 · Mosiah 29:25

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Book of Mormon Helaman 4:22
"they had altered and trampled under their feet the laws of Mosiah, or that which the Lord commanded him to give unto the people"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 29:25
"the laws which have been given you by our fathers, which are correct, and which were given them by the hand of the Lord"

Named back-citation (allusion, taxonomy 3): at the moment of military collapse two generations on, the Nephites 'began to remember the prophecies of Alma, and also the words of Mosiah' (Helaman 4:21), and saw 'that they had altered and trampled under their feet the laws of Mosiah, or that which the Lord commanded him to give unto the people' (Helaman 4:22). The dead king's legal legacy is remembered AS authoritative scripture. The tightest single-verse contact for 'the laws of Mosiah… which the Lord commanded him to give' is the law-establishment verse of the kingship letter, Mosiah 29:25: the judges' law was 'given you by our fathers… and… given them by the hand of the Lord' — the same law, framed as divinely commanded through Mosiah. Tier discipline: this is a paraphrase/allusion, not a quotation. The one verbal overlap ('trampled under their feet' / 'trampleth under his feet', Mosiah 29:22) is NOT distinctive — the idiom recurs in 1 Nephi 19:7, Helaman 6:31, and Helaman 6:39 across other objects, so it cannot anchor a 'distinctive shared phrasing' claim; the contact rests on the named citation of Mosiah's laws, not the idiom. DISCLOSED, not duplicated: the live record 'hel-kj-failure-clause-executes' (Helaman 5:2 <-> Mosiah 29:27, on kings-and-judges.md) holds the same Helaman 4:21-22 passage and reads the 'words of Mosiah' remembered as the failure clause (Mosiah 29:27); this record takes the distinct 'laws of Mosiah' / law-establishment clause at Mosiah 29:25, a different verse and a different contact. Cross-linked on kings-and-judges.md.

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