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Alma 45:24 · Helaman 3:36

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Book of Mormon Alma 45:24
"But they grew proud, being lifted up in their hearts, because of their exceedingly great riches; therefore they grew rich in their own eyes"
Book of Mormon Helaman 3:36
"it was because of their exceedingly great riches and their prosperity in the land; and it did grow upon them from day to day"

Shared words: because of their exceedingly great riches

The causal formula 'because of their exceedingly great riches' stands at exactly three corpus verses — Alma 45:24 (its first occurrence, the narrator's report of the apostasy immediately after Alma's departure), Helaman 3:36 (the year-ledger form: a year of peace 'save it were' the pride, with this stated cause), and 3 Nephi 6:10 — with the second-person variant 'because of your exceedingly great riches' at Helaman 7:26 (verified by a search of the corpus). This record formalizes the first-occurrence-to-ledger leg of the triangle whose 3 Nephi 6:10 <-> Helaman 3:36 leg is registered as 3ne-riches-cycle-fastest (riches-and-pride.md); the third pairing (Alma 45:24 <-> 3 Nephi 6:10) remains unregistered. Divergence reported, not scored: Alma 45:24 states the pride-from-riches as the narrator's causal verdict on one apostasy; Helaman 3:36 sets the identical formula inside a dated ledger entry and adds the day-to-day growth clause. Registered at the 2026-07-10 editorial review (provenance in verification-log.md).

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