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Moroni 4:3 · 2 Nephi 31:13

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Book of Mormon Moroni 4:3
"witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son"
Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 31:13
"witnessing unto the Father that ye are willing to take upon you the name of Christ, by baptism"

Shared words: are willing to take upon

The sacrament prayer's covenant clause repeats Nephi's baptismal-covenant wording. The carrying run is 'willing to take upon them the name of' / 'willing to take upon you the name of' — word-bounded, 'willing to take upon' stands at exactly five corpus verses (recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze): the two endpoints; one non-name object, 'willing to take upon them the kingdom' (Mosiah 29:3); and two in the Doctrine and Covenants — D&C 20:77, the sacrament prayer itself, which carries this record's carrying run word for word as 'willing to take upon them the name of thy Son', and D&C 20:37, which sets it in the baptism-intake requirement as 'willing to take upon them the name of Jesus Christ'. The shared clause at the two registered ends is unchanged as a textual fact, but the run is no longer near-confined to them, so this record rests on the endpoint relation rather than on the run's rarity. At the run the pronoun and the naming of the Son ('thy Son' / 'Christ') are the only differences; across the fuller clauses the verb form (witness/witnessing) and the Father's fuller title differ as well. Both verses set the clause in a witness-to-the-Father frame, which the wine prayer carries verbatim too (Moroni 5:2) — the frame accompanies rather than carries the pairing. Sits beside mos-doc-take-name (Mosiah 5:8 <-> 2 Nephi 31:13) and the prayer's institution pairing moro-sac-prayers-institution (Moroni 4:3 <-> 3 Nephi 18:10).

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