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Mosiah 25:2 · Omni 1:12

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 25:2
"the people of Zarahemla, who was a descendant of Mulek, and those who came with him into the wilderness"
Book of Mormon Omni 1:12
"as many as would hearken unto the voice of the Lord should also depart out of the land with him, into the wilderness"

Shared words: with him into the wilderness

The phrase occurs at four verses in the record — comma-pointed 'with him, into the wilderness' at Omni 1:12 and Alma 27:25 (Alma returning to the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi, 'also Alma with him, into the wilderness'), comma-less 'with him into the wilderness' at Mosiah 25:2 and Alma 47:1 (Amalickiah's fled followers). The two registered here are the founding-migration pair, once per founding migration of the two peoples merged at Zarahemla: Mosiah I's company leaving the land of Nephi (Omni 1:12, 'him' = Mosiah) and the founding company of the people of Zarahemla (Mosiah 25:2, where the antecedent of 'him' - Mulek or Zarahemla - is not disambiguated); the two Alma occurrences are ordinary travel, not foundings. 25:2 is also the lineage-side complement to Omni 1:15-16's migration account, and the first occurrence in the record of the name Mulek. Page reports the verbal identity as fact, the two-migrations rhyme as a reading to weigh.

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