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Mosiah 7:31 · Mosiah 12:6

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 7:31
"If my people shall sow filthiness they shall reap the east wind, which bringeth immediate destruction"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 12:6
"they shall also be smitten with the east wind"

Shared words: the east wind

The phrase 'east wind' occurs at exactly these two verses in the record; across the frozen corpus it is a common Old Testament image — nineteen further verses (Exodus, Genesis, Job, the Psalms, Ezekiel, Hosea, and others) — so the record-internal pairing, not the phrase, is what registers. Limhi quotes the image with a citation formula ('And again he saith') as an already-spoken saying of the Lord whose source text the corpus does not preserve; Abinadi (chronologically earlier than Limhi's speech) delivers the same image as the Lord's first-person word ('Thus saith the Lord,' Mosiah 12:2). Limhi COULD be citing Abinadi's preaching, but his fuller sayings (sow filthiness -> chaff/whirlwind/poison, 7:30) match nothing in Abinadi's recorded words, so the source stays unidentifiable. Register records the shared phrase, not a chain of custody.

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