The Book of Mormon — Modern

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The complete registry

All 32 phrasings kept verbatim in the AMES Edition as of v1.10, in the order Dan ratified them.

32 entries

  1. #1

    “SACRED PRAYERS — kept verbatim including archaic pronouns (thy/thine/art): the sacrament prayer on the bread — O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this bread to the souls of all those who partake of it / that they may eat in remembrance of the body of thy Son, and witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father / that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son, and always remember him / and keep his commandments which he hath given them, that they may always have his Spirit to be with them — the sacrament prayer on the wine — O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee, in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this wine to the souls of all those who drink of it / that they may do it in remembrance of the blood of thy Son, which was shed for them / that they may witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they do always remember him, that they may have his Spirit to be with them — the Lord's Prayer — Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name / Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven / And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors / And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil / For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. — the baptismal formula (3 Ne 11:25, verbatim on its face)”

    Moroni 4:3; Moroni 5:2; 3N 13:9–13; 3N 11:25

    The only archaic pronouns in the edition. Lord's Prayer content follows the BoM source: no "Thy kingdom come," no daily bread; the narrator's lead-in stays modern.

  2. #2

    “As the Lord lives, and as we live / as the Lord lives, and as I live / as surely as the Lord lives / as surely as Christ lives”

    Kept everywhereoath

    1N 3:15, 4:32; Moroni 7:26. Exempts the oath from the §15e surely sweep

  3. #3

    “Thus says the Lord”

    Kept everywhere

    the oracle marker

  4. #4

    “Behold the Lamb of God, even the Son of the Eternal Father! / Behold my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, in whom I have glorified my name—hear him!”

    1N 11:21; 3N 11:7

    the only two surviving imperative Beholds

  5. #5

    “the sacred "of" formulas”

    Kept everywhere

    word/Spirit/presence/commandments of the Lord; power/love of God; divine titles (Lamb/Son of God, God of Abraham/Isaac/Jacob, God of Israel, Holy One of Israel, Mighty One of Jacob/Israel, Lord Omnipotent); fixed labels (valley of Lemuel, land of Jerusalem [narration labels], plates of Nephi, law of Moses, house of Israel, five books of Moses)

  6. #6

    “great and spacious building”

    Kept everywhere

    fixed epithet; "large and spacious" where the source has it

  7. #7

    “great and abominable church”

    Kept everywhere

    fixed epithet

  8. #8

    “the whore of all the earth / the mother of harlots / the mother of abominations”

    Kept everywhere

    fixed epithets

  9. #9

    “the father of lies / the father of all lies / the father of contention”

    Kept everywhere

    the devil's fixed epithet, John 8:44; distinct from §15e's originator sense (founder)

  10. #10

    “all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people”

    Kept everywhere

    four elements fixed, each site follows the source's own order

  11. #11

    “ripe(ned) in iniquity”

    Kept everywhere

    vivid BoM idiom

  12. #12

    “a broken heart and a contrite spirit”

    Kept everywhere

    identical string at every site: 2N 2:7, 3N 9:20, 3N 12:19, Ether 4:15, Moroni 6:2

  13. #13

    “come unto Christ”

    Kept everywhereinvitation formula

    the one surviving unto — "come unto Christ, and be perfected in him"

  14. #14

    “I will go and do what the Lord has commanded”

    1N 3:7

    cadence of the original kept

  15. #15

    “desirable above all other fruit / it is the most desirable above all things / and the most joyous to the soul”

    1N 8:12, 8:15; 11:22–23

    the §4a inversion sweep's only exception — everywhere else "X above all" → "more X than any(thing)"

  16. #16

    “Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.”

    2N 2:25

    the chiasm is the line; men deliberately survives §4a

  17. #17

    “there must be an opposition in all things”

    Kept everywhere

    2N 2:11; "a compound in one" kept alongside

  18. #18

    “it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do”

    2N 25:23

  19. #19

    “the natural man is an enemy to God”

    Kept everywhere

    Mosiah 3:19; doctrinal term of art; the cascade "submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love" kept alongside

  20. #20

    “when you are in the service of your fellow beings, you are only in the service of your God”

    Mosiah 2:17

  21. #21

    “bear one another's burdens, that they may be light / mourn with those that mourn / comfort those that stand in need of comfort / stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places”

    Mosiah 18:8–9

    the baptismal covenant at the waters of Mormon

  22. #22

    “born of God? / received his image in your countenances? / experienced this mighty change in your hearts?”

    Alma 5:14

    the interrogative cascade of Alma's Zarahemla sermon

  23. #23

    “O Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me”

    Alma 36:18

    the chiasm's pivot

  24. #24

    “wickedness never was happiness”

    Alma 41:10

  25. #25

    “Do you think that mercy can rob justice? I say to you, No, not one whit”

    Alma 42:25

    with "God would cease to be God" (42:13, 22, 25) as the argument's refrain

  26. #26

    “In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children”

    Alma 46:12

    THE TITLE OF LIBERTY — monument text, verbatim

  27. #27

    “Their mothers had taught them that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them”

    Alma 56:47

    the stripling soldiers' testimony

  28. #28

    “remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that you must build your foundation”

    Hel 5:12

    the whole verse registered — whirlwind cascade and the "sure foundation" close intact

  29. #29

    “You are free; you are permitted to act for yourselves”

    Hel 14:30

    agency's plainest statement

  30. #30

    “O you fair ones, how could you have departed from the ways of the Lord! / O you fair sons and daughters, you fathers and mothers, you husbands and wives, you fair ones, how is it that you could have fallen!”

    Morm 6:17, 6:19

    THE CUMORAH LAMENT — O-vocatives and the doubled fair ones refrain kept; a registered exception to the fair/white-by-meaning rule (§4a); "my soul was rent with anguish" (6:16) kept alongside

  31. #31

    “(a) watery grave”

    1N 18:18

    Dan's v0.6 ruling: "we have to keep this imagery" — restored from the at-risk list on Dan's ruling, same day as the cut

  32. #32

    “Brethren, adieu.”

    Jacob 7:27

    R0 verbatim — the book's famous last word, brethren and all — restored from the at-risk list on Dan's ruling

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