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Alma 46:21 · Mormon 8:38

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Book of Mormon Alma 46:21
"if they should transgress the commandments of God, or fall into transgression, and be ashamed to take upon them the name of Christ, the Lord should rend them even as they had rent their garments"
Book of Mormon Mormon 8:38
"Why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ?"

Shared words: ashamed to take upon

The run 'ashamed to take upon' stands at exactly two corpus verses (verified by a search of the corpus): the title-of-liberty covenant, where being ashamed of the name is the hypothetical failure the swearers call rending down upon themselves, and Moroni's latter-day indictment, where the question presumes the shame has arrived. Divergence reported: 'take upon them' (the oath, third person) against 'take upon you' (the address, second person). The fuller run 'take upon them the name of Christ' stands at exactly two corpus verses as well — Mosiah 25:23 and Alma 46:21 (verified by a search of the corpus). Siblings: alma-title-take-name (Alma 46:21 <-> Mosiah 25:23, title-of-liberty.md) and morm-ashamed-take-name (Mormon 8:38 <-> Mosiah 5:8, church-of-god.md) each pair one end back to the take-the-name material descending from Benjamin's covenant (Mosiah 5:8 the speech itself; Mosiah 25:23 its church-entrance echo); this record pairs the two 'ashamed' verses with each other — the oath's hypothetical and the last writer's diagnosis. Registered at the 2026-07-10 editorial review (provenance in verification-log.md).