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Helaman 11:4 · Helaman 10:6

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Book of Mormon Helaman 11:4
"do not suffer that this people shall be destroyed by the sword; but O Lord, rather let there be a famine in the land"
Book of Mormon Helaman 10:6
"ye shall have power over this people, and shall smite the earth with famine, and with pestilence, and destruction"

Internal pair: the sealing power granted at 10:6 ('smite the earth with famine') is exercised in the record only in this one episode, in inverse mercy -- Nephi asks for the famine to PREVENT destruction by the sword (11:4), not to inflict it, and then asks it away at the people's repentance (11:9-16). At 11:14 the chapter audits its own miracle by self-citation: 'thou didst hearken unto my words when I said, Let there be a famine, that the pestilence of the sword might cease'..

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