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Mosiah 1:17 · 1 Nephi 18:13

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 1:17
"as they were unfaithful they did not prosper nor progress in their journey, but were driven back"
Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 18:13
"there arose a great storm, yea, a great and terrible tempest, and we were driven back upon the waters for the space of three days"

Shared words: were driven back

The phrase 'driven back' occurs at thirteen verses in the record (1 Nephi 18:13/18:14/18:15 — three consecutive verses, the storm pericope's refrain, triggered when 'the compass … did cease to work', 18:12 — Mosiah 1:17, and later battle accounts: Mosiah 11:18, 21:11; Alma 49:21, 57:22, 63:15; Helaman 11:29; Mormon 4:2, 4:8, 5:3), and at fifteen across the frozen corpus counted word-bounded (adding Psalms 114:3 and 114:5; Psalms 40:14's 'driven backward' is an extended-word variant, disclosed, not counted). All post-Mosiah record hits are battle accounts, not the fathers' journey. Within any account of the founding journey the phrase belongs to the storm pericope alone; Benjamin uses it of that journey while handing over that compass. The phrase-share is the textual fact; the referent identification is carried by the separate interpretive record. Verse 1:17's other formulas are registered as mos-zeniff-famine-afflictions and mos-benjamin-stir-remembrance - this quote takes neither clause.

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