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Moses 7:18 · 4 Nephi 1:3

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Pearl of Great Price Moses 7:18
"the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them"
Book of Mormon 4 Nephi 1:3
"they had all things common among them; therefore there were not rich and poor, bond and free, but they were all made free, and partakers of the heavenly gift"

INTERPRETIVE -- weigh this; offered as a reading, not asserted. Enoch's Zion (Moses 7:18) and the Nephite golden age after Christ's ministry (4 Nephi 1:3) portray the same social ideal -- a united, righteous people with no economic division. The two share NO distinctive phrase: Moses reads 'no poor among them', 4 Nephi reads 'not rich and poor'; and 'one heart and one mind' appears verbatim only at Moses 7:18 across the Book of Mormon and Pearl of Great Price (the near-identical 'one heart and of one soul' at Acts 4:32 belongs to the New Testament, outside this record). The parallel is thematic, not verbal. Both quotes are single-verse contiguous runs, verbatim. 4 Nephi 1:15's 'no contention… because of the love of God' is companion context in-note, not a second endpoint.