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Abraham 3:23 · Alma 13:3

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Pearl of Great Price Abraham 3:23
"And God saw these souls that they were good, and he stood in the midst of them, and he said: These I will make my rulers; for he stood among those that were spirits, and he saw that they were good; and he said unto me: Abraham, thou art one of them; thou wast chosen before thou wast born."
Book of Mormon Alma 13:3
"being called and prepared from the foundation of the world according to the foreknowledge of God, on account of their exceeding faith and good works; in the first place being left to choose good or evil; therefore they having chosen good"

INTERPRETIVE / thematic, not verbal. Both texts locate a selection to holy standing before mortal life, grounded in prior righteousness: Abraham among 'the noble and great ones' (3:22) and 'chosen before thou wast born' (3:23); Alma's priests 'called and prepared from the foundation of the world according to the foreknowledge of God … having chosen good'. They share NO distinctive phrase -- 'chosen before thou wast born' / 'noble and great ones' (Abraham) find no echo in 'prepared from the foundation of the world' / 'foreknowledge of God' (a clause the corpus uses broadly for the plan of redemption -- Benjamin at Mosiah 4:7, Alma at Alma 12:30). The shared doctrine of pre-mortal foreordination is real in the text; a shared source or phrasing is not claimed. Registered interpretive.

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