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Mosiah 2:32 · Mosiah 4:14

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 2:32
"beware lest there shall arise contentions among you, and ye list to obey the evil spirit, which was spoken of by my father Mosiah"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 4:14
"the devil, who is the master of sin, or who is the evil spirit which hath been spoken of by our fathers, he being an enemy to all righteousness"

Shared words: the evil spirit, which

Benjamin cites the same inherited teaching twice in one discourse, and the attribution shifts: 'my father Mosiah' (named individual) at 2:32, 'our fathers' (generalized plural) at 4:14. The phrase 'the evil spirit' + the citation formula 'spoken of by' co-occur at exactly these two verses in the corpus (Mosiah 27:30 has 'spoken of by our fathers' of other content; 2 Nephi 25:18 'spoken of by the prophets' of the Messiah; Mosiah 2:37 and 2 Nephi 32:8 have 'the evil spirit' without the formula). The cited teaching itself is unpreserved - Omni 1:12-23, Mosiah I's entire in-person appearance, quotes no words of his.

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