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Helaman 5:30 · 1 Nephi 17:45

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Book of Mormon Helaman 5:30
"it was a still voice of perfect mildness, as if it had been a whisper, and it did pierce even to the very soul"
Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 17:45
"he hath spoken unto you in a still small voice, but ye were past feeling"

Shared words: a still

The record's two still-voice texts (corpus-wide, 1 Kings 19:12's 'a still small voice' makes three). Both pair the quiet voice with an earth-shaking: Helaman 5:30 first negates 'a voice of thunder' (Nephi's contrast at 1 Nephi 17:45, 'the voice of thunder, which did cause the earth to shake as if it were to divide asunder'), and Helaman 5:33's third utterance reproduces that exact divide-asunder clause -- 'the earth shook as if it were about to divide asunder.' Two contacts, one record: the still-voice phrasing (5:30) and the divide-asunder clause (5:33), both against the single verse 1 Nephi 17:45. Cross-link nephi-lehison.md (Nephi son of Lehi is the source voice).

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