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Mosiah 29:32 · 2 Nephi 1:7

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 29:32
"I desire that this land be a land of liberty, and every man may enjoy his rights and privileges alike"
Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 1:7
"it shall be a land of liberty unto them; wherefore, they shall never be brought down into captivity"

Shared words: be a land of liberty

The phrase 'land of liberty' occurs at exactly four verses in the corpus: 2 Nephi 1:7, 2 Nephi 10:11, Mosiah 29:32, Alma 46:17 (see alma-land-of-liberty-named). Lehi's conditional covenant promise over the promised land becomes the letter's stated aim for the new order; the third occurrence, 2 Nephi 10:11, joins the phrase to kinglessness itself ('there shall be no kings upon the land'). 29:32 keeps the conditional shape ('so long as the Lord sees fit').