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Mosiah 25:3 · Mosiah 20:11

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 25:3
"And there were not so many of the people of Nephi and of the people of Zarahemla as there were of the Lamanites; yea, they were not half so numerous"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 20:11
"yet they were not half so numerous as the Lamanites"

Shared words: they were not half so numerous

'not half so numerous' occurs at exactly three verses in the corpus to date: Mosiah 20:11 (Limhi's people vs the Lamanites in battle), 25:3 (the whole combined people vs all the Lamanites, in the census), 26:5 (the unbelievers vs the people of God - comparator turned inward; carried on page). All three are narrator's voice, so possibly the editor's stock idiom - disclosed on page; the distribution is the textual fact, the local-to-national scaling-up reading is left to weigh.

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