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Mosiah 9:3 · Mosiah 1:17

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 9:3
"we were smitten with famine and sore afflictions; for we were slow to remember the Lord our God"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 1:17
"they were smitten with famine and sore afflictions, to stir them up in remembrance of their duty"

Shared words: were smitten with famine and sore afflictions

Corpus-wide grep: the six-word formula 'smitten with famine and sore afflictions' occurs at exactly these two verses - in two independent embedded voices (Benjamin's private teaching about Lehi's generation; Zeniff's first-person record of his own colony). Both verses bind the formula to remembrance failure: 'slow to remember the Lord our God' / 'stir them up in remembrance of their duty.' The independence of the two voices is the point of the record.

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