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Mosiah 12:5 · Mosiah 21:3

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 12:5
"I will cause that they shall have burdens lashed upon their backs; and they shall be driven before like a dumb ass"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 21:3
"began to put heavy burdens upon their backs, and drive them as they would a dumb ass"

Shared words: upon their backs; and

The rare beast-of-burden image returns clause for clause and in order (burdens on backs, then driven as a dumb ass); 'dumb ass' occurs nowhere else in the record. The only other corpus occurrence is 2 Peter 2:16 ('the dumb ass speaking with man's voice', the Balaam allusion) — three verses in all. Divergences: divine first person 'I will cause… lashed' becomes Lamanite practice 'began to put heavy burdens'; 'driven before like' becomes 'drive them as they would'. Mosiah 21:4 ('that the word of the Lord might be fulfilled') marks the verse as deliberate fulfillment.

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