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Mosiah 20:15 · Jacob 2:33

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 20:15
"thy people did carry away the daughters of my people"
Book of Mormon Jacob 2:33
"they shall not lead away captive the daughters of my people because of their tenderness, save I shall visit them with a sore curse, even unto destruction"

The men who carry away the daughters are Noah's priests, whose whoredoms are on the record's surface (Mosiah 11:14, 12:29); 'the daughters of my people' occurs in the corpus only at Jacob 2:31, 2:33, Mosiah 20:15. Weigh-this reading: Mosiah 20 as a narrative enactment of Jacob 2:33's warning. Counterweights disclosed on page: speakers/referents differ (the Lord re: Nephite daughters vs the Lamanite king re: Lamanite daughters), verbs differ (lead away captive / carry away), and no Mosiah verse cites Jacob's sermon. Interpretive, not asserted.

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