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Helaman 6:17 · Mosiah 12:29

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Book of Mormon Helaman 6:17
"they began to set their hearts upon their riches; yea, they began to seek to get gain that they might be lifted up one above another"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 12:29
"Why do ye set your hearts upon riches?"

Shared words: hearts upon

The set-hearts-upon-riches idiom (Abinadi's charge to Noah's priests) recurs at the Helaman pivot where shared prosperity turns to secret murder. The idiom conjugates through the book's whole arc: 13:20 ('they have set their hearts upon riches') and Samuel's 13:22 ('your hearts are not drawn out unto the Lord, but they do swell with great pride'). Extends the mos-riches-heartsupon chain (Mosiah 12:29 <-> Mosiah 11:14); distinct new verse-pair (Helaman 6:17 <-> Mosiah 12:29). The exact contiguous idiom 'hearts upon riches' occurs at five verses — Mosiah 12:29, Alma 1:30, Alma 4:8, Alma 7:6, and Helaman 13:20; the near-variant reading stands at Helaman 6:17 (this record's verse, 'their riches'), Helaman 7:21 ('upon the riches and the vain things of this world'), and 13:21 ('upon them,' the riches of 13:20). Helaman 13:20 carries both the exact idiom and a 'their'-variant within the one verse (counting rule: exact contiguous 'hearts upon riches'). Mosiah 12:29 is 2nd person ('Why do ye set your hearts upon riches?').

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