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Moses 4:31 · Genesis 3:24

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Pearl of Great Price Moses 4:31
"So I drove out the man, and I placed at the east of the Garden of Eden, cherubim and a flaming sword, which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life."
Old Testament Genesis 3:24
"So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."

Shared words: and a flaming sword, which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life

The cherubim and flaming sword, in matching terms recast to first person. Divergences: Moses 'So I drove out … I placed' vs Genesis 'So he drove out … he placed'; Moses 'at the east of the Garden of Eden, cherubim and a flaming sword' vs Genesis 'at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword' (word order and capitalization). The Book of Mormon carries the same scene (Moses 4:31 <-> Alma 42:2 at pogp-mos-01; Alma 12:21 <-> Genesis 3:24 at alma-cherubim-flaming-sword); this record is the Moses <-> Genesis leg. No existing register record pairs Moses with Genesis -- checked connections.json, both orderings. Spelling divergence, reported not scored: Moses 4:31 reads 'cherubim,' Genesis 3:24 'Cherubims' (the corpus KJV's spelling at its 64 other occurrences; the verse's served 'Cherubim' was a source artifact corrected under the 2026-07-10 raw-represents-the-KJV ruling, provenance in verification-log.md).

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