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Jacob 4:11 · 2 Nephi 2:9

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Book of Mormon Jacob 4:11
"be presented as the first-fruits of Christ unto God"
Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 2:9
"Wherefore, he is the firstfruits unto God, inasmuch as he shall make intercession for all the children of men"

Shared words: unto God

Counting the first-fruit word-family (any spelling — 'firstfruits'/'first-fruits'/'first fruits', plus the singular 'first fruit') the record has four occurrences: the two registered ends — Lehi's 'the firstfruits unto God' applied to Christ (2 Nephi 2:9), Jacob's 'the first-fruits of Christ unto God' extending it to the reconciled (Jacob 4:11) — plus Moroni 8:25 ('the first fruits of repentance is baptism', a different sense: the first product of repentance, not an offering unto God) and Jacob 5:60 ('the first fruit', the allegory's preserved root, singular). Restricting to the plural forms drops Jacob 5:60, leaving three in the record. Corpus-wide the term is a pervasive Old/New Testament ritual word — thirty-seven verses under the word-family rule, thirty-four plural-only (recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze; D&C 88:98 is the added carrier, in the church-of-the-Firstborn resurrection sense) — so the offering-unto-God sense the two ends share, not the bare word, is what registers. Spelling differs across the ends (firstfruits / first-fruits / first fruits) — reported as found in the source text.