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Mosiah 1:4 · 1 Nephi 1:2

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 1:4
"for he having been taught in the language of the Egyptians therefore he could read these engravings"
Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 1:2
"I make a record in the language of my father, which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians"

Shared words: the language of the Egyptians

Re-verified by search of the corpus: 'the language of the Egyptians' occurs exactly twice corpus-wide - these two verses. Referent difference carried on the page: 1 Ne 1:2 = the language of Nephi's record-making; Mosiah 1:4 = Lehi's ability to read the brass-plates engravings. Benjamin's 'therefore' ties Egyptian learning to reading the engravings (the verse's own inference); neither verse states outright what script the brass plates were written in.

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The Brass Plates