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Jacob 5:61 · 1 Nephi 15:36

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Book of Mormon Jacob 5:61
"the natural fruit, which natural fruit is good and the most precious above all other fruit"
Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 15:36
"whose fruit is most precious and most desirable above all other fruits"

The adjective-above-all-other-noun superlative pattern is the corpus's standard template (18 occurrences across 17 verses and 6 noun slots — lands, churches, nations, virgins, vineyard parts, fruit; 1 Nephi 13:30 carries two, nations and lands; nine occurrences in the lands slot, at 1 Nephi 2:20, 13:30, 2 Nephi 1:5, 10:19, Ether 2:7, 2:10, 2:15, 9:20, 13:2), and 1 Nephi 8:12/8:15 already attach 'desirable above all other fruit' to the tree of life. With the referents admitted to be different figures (the vineyard's natural fruit vs the tree of life), the cross-figure echo is a weigh-this question, not a wording fact beyond what the template explains.