Mosiah 10:12 · Enos 1:20
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Triple epithet identical word for word ('wild, and ferocious, and a blood-thirsty people'; Mosiah adds the article 'a wild'), generations apart. Grep: only these two verses carry the exact triple 'wild, and ferocious, and a blood-thirsty people' - near-variant epithet-strings applied to a people stand at Alma 17:14 ('a wild and a hardened and a ferocious people') and Helaman 3:16 ('becoming wicked, and wild, and ferocious'); 'ferocious' also in the simile 'wild and ferocious beasts' (Mosiah 17:17) and at Alma 47:36; 'blood-thirsty' elsewhere only of Zeniff's own Nephite ruler ('an austere and a blood-thirsty man', Mosiah 9:2). Enos attached the portrait to 'their evil nature'; Mosiah 10:12 attaches it to 'believing in the tradition of their fathers'. Disclosure: same far-end verse as mos-lamlem-girdle, different clauses.
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