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Mosiah 1:5 · Omni 1:17

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 1:5
"that even our fathers would have dwindled in unbelief, and we should have been like unto our brethren, the Lamanites"
Book of Mormon Omni 1:17
"and their language had become corrupted; and they had brought no records with them; and they denied the being of their Creator"

Benjamin's no-records counterfactual vs the record's actual case: a parallel Jerusalem colony that sailed without a record (Omni 1:15-17) - and Benjamin speaks in Zarahemla as king over the merged people (Omni 1:19). The pairing is structural not verbal (zero shared phrasing), and the counter-reading is stated on the page - Benjamin's named comparison is the Lamanites, not his hearers' Zarahemla ancestors; his point may be generic. Companion to sb-brass-language (1 Ne 3:19 <-> Omni 1:17, same page) and distinct from mos-benjamin-dwindled (Mosiah 1:5 <-> 1 Ne 12:23, on king-benjamin.md).

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