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Mosiah 12:29 · Mosiah 11:14

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 12:29
"Why do ye set your hearts upon riches? Why do ye commit whoredoms and spend your strength with harlots"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 11:14
"he placed his heart upon his riches, and he spent his time in riotous living with his wives and his concubines; and so did also his priests spend their time with harlots"

Shared words: with harlots

Abinadi's two questions track the narrator's summary verse clause by clause, same order: heart(s)-upon-riches, then spend-with-harlots. Distribution: set-hearts-upon-riches runs through six verses (Mosiah 12:29; Alma 1:30, 4:8, 7:6; Helaman 6:17, 13:20), plus Noah's 'placed his heart upon his riches' (11:14); this pair remains the only clause-by-clause echo. The word 'harlots' in Mosiah appears only at this pair's two endpoints (11:14, 12:29); elsewhere in the record only 1 Nephi 13:7, 13:8, 13:34, 14:16, 14:17 and Alma 39:11. Nearest alternative far end disclosed: 2 Nephi 9:30 'their hearts are upon their treasures' (treasures, not riches). Whether the wording is Abinadi's own or the abridgment's framing the record does not say. 12:29's whoredoms clause cross-linked to chastity-and-marriage.md.

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