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2 Nephi 9:30 · Jacob 2:13

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Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 9:30
"because they are rich they despise the poor, and they persecute the meek"
Book of Mormon Jacob 2:13
"persecute your brethren because ye suppose that ye are better than they"

The sole shared lexeme 'persecute' is common (the persecute-lexeme runs to thirty-four inflected hits in the record, and far more corpus-wide (119 verse-lines counting the frozen Bible)), and 2 Nephi 28:13 ('they persecute the meek and the poor in heart, because in their pride they are puffed up') is verbally closer to 9:30 than Jacob 2:13 is. Same moral argument-shape (riches → contempt → persecution of the lowly), same preacher, no distinctive shared wording — tier-④ thematic.

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