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Words of Mormon 1:8 · 2 Nephi 30:6

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Book of Mormon Words of Mormon 1:8
"that they may once again be a delightsome people"
Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 30:6
"many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a pure and a delightsome people"

Shared words: a delightsome people

Mormon prays for the restoration Nephi prophesied, in Nephi's word. The word 'delightsome' has eight hits in the record — 2 Nephi 5:21, 30:6, 30:7, WoM 1:8, 3 Nephi 24:12 ('a delightsome land', inside the Malachi 3 quotation), 4 Nephi 1:10, Mormon 5:17, and Moroni 9:12 ('they were a civil and a delightsome people'); the ninth corpus occurrence is Malachi 3:12 itself ('for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts'), the Old Testament original the 3 Nephi verse reproduces. Exact phrase 'delightsome people' at 2 Nephi 30:6, 30:7, WoM 1:8, 4 Nephi 1:10, Mormon 5:17, and Moroni 9:12 — the last three the golden age, Mormon's elegy for the lost people, and his epistle's past-tense witness of the same fall.

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