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Mormon 5:17 · 4 Nephi 1:10

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Book of Mormon Mormon 5:17
"They were once a delightsome people, and they had Christ for their shepherd"
Book of Mormon 4 Nephi 1:10
"became an exceedingly fair and delightsome people"

Curse-reversal. The text's own stated cause and nothing more: Mormon 5:15 says this people 'shall become a dark, a filthy, and a loathsome people … because of their unbelief and idolatry.' 4 Ne 1:10 records the height ('an exceedingly fair and delightsome people'); Mormon 5:17 marks the reversal ('They were once a delightsome people … led even by God the Father'). 'delightsome people' recurs across the corpus (2 Ne 30:6-7; 4 Ne 1:10; Mormon 5:17; WoM 1:8; Moroni 9:12), so the binding contact is the reversal-ARC (a people once delightsome who fell), NOT the phrase. A separate registered pair 4 Ne 1:10 <-> 2 Ne 5:21 ('exceedingly fair and delightsome', the 2-hit phrase) is hosted on laman-and-lemuel.md -- distinct verse-pair from this one (Mormon 5:17 <-> 4 Ne 1:10), same family. Zero interpretive expansion of the curse mechanism beyond the text's stated cause.