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Mosiah 1:17 · 1 Nephi 16:21

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 1:17
"as they were unfaithful they did not prosper nor progress in their journey"
Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 16:21
"their bows having lost their springs, it began to be exceedingly difficult, yea, insomuch that we could obtain no food"

Benjamin's one-sentence history compresses the two wilderness crises - the broken-bow food crisis (1 Ne 16:18-32) and the bound-Nephi storm (1 Ne 18:11-21) - as the unnamed referents of 'famine and sore afflictions' and 'driven back'. Hedges: (1) the storm half rests on the textual mos-liahona-driven-back record, but the famine half is by situation only - 1 Nephi 16 never uses the word 'famine' (its terms are 'want of food' 16:19, 'could obtain no food' 16:21); (2) causal-order mismatch disclosed: Benjamin has unfaithfulness -> famine 'to stir them up', while 1 Ne 16's crisis begins with an accidental broken bow (16:18) and murmuring follows (16:20); (3) alternative reading stated: Benjamin may be summarizing the journey's afflictions generally.

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