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Mosiah 11:19 · Mosiah 2:16

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 11:19
"they were lifted up in the pride of their hearts; they did boast in their own strength"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 2:16
"I do not desire to boast, for I have only been in the service of God"

Within Mosiah the verb 'boast' occurs in exactly two settings: Benjamin's discourse refusing it (2:15, 2:16, 2:24 'of what have ye to boast?') and Noah's regime performing it (11:19, twice in the verse). In the record the exact word 'boast' stands at thirteen verses: 2 Nephi 20:15 (Isaiah quotation), the four Mosiah verses above, Alma 26:11, 26:12, 26:36, 38:11, Helaman 5:8, 12:5, Mormon 3:9, and 4:8 (no Ether hit); across the frozen corpus it roughly triples to thirty-two, the added nineteen all Old/New Testament (the Psalms, Proverbs, Romans, 2 Corinthians, and the Isaiah originals). Verbal element is a single common verb, hence interpretive: the inverse-portrait reading (Noah set against Benjamin - taxes vs. labored-with-own-hands 2:14, boast-in-strength vs. service-of-God) is offered to weigh, not asserted as editorial design.

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