Book of Mormon Chiasms & Parallels (small plates)

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• FIRST NEPHI
  • I Nephi 2:15-24 = Exodus 3:1-20 parallel <PDF> (Commission: Lehi's vision and Moses' visitation)
  • I Nephi 5
    • I Nephi 5 chiasm <PDF> <WP.zip> (by Zen Featherstone: R.E. Plates of Brass)
    • I Nephi 5 parallel <PDF> <WP.zip> <in script> (R.E. Plates of Brass: "That they might not perish with famine")
    • I Nephi 5 substructure  <PDF> <WP.zip> (Sariah mourns, Lehi comforts her)
  • I Nephi 14
    • I Nephi 14 chiasm, substructure <WP.zip> (Nephi's vision of last days; >"Rememberest thou the covenants;" >"Wo be to the Gentiles if they harden their hearts against the Lamb of God")
    • I Nephi 14 parallel <PDF> <WP.zip> ("great and abominable church;" "captivity;" "great and marvelous work")
  • I Nephi 17
    • I Nephi 17 basic chapter   chiasm
    • I Nephi 17:30-42 chiasm <PDF> ("they did harden their hearts")
    • I Nephi 17:2-22,50 = 23-31,41,42 parallel (Nephi's comparison of Lehites and Israelites)
    • I Nephi 17:32-35,40,41 = Deut. 9:1-7 parallel <PDF> (Nephi and Moses' accounts of Israelites entering promised land)
    • I Nephi 17:13,14 = Exodus 6:6-8 parallel <PDF> ("I will be your light in the wilderness")
  • I Nephi 20
    • I Nephi 20 (Isaiah 48) parallel <PDF> <WP.zip> ("I have called him to declare")
    • I Nephi 20=21=22 triple parallel (I Ne. 20,21 is a quotation of Isa. 48,49) [PDF of Photocopy, hand written]

• SECOND NEPHI
  • Second Book of Nephi huge parallel: 
    • II Nephi 2-10 = 18-28 <PDF> <WP.zip>  (~100pp. still being uncovered in both directions) ("Messiah set his hand again the second time;"   II Ne. 2-10 and 18-28, quote from ten chapters of Isaiah, namely, Isaiah 49:22-26 through 52:1-2 and Isaiah 8-14.)
    • See also Commentaries on selected portions of this parallel
  • II Nephi 3
    • II Nephi 3 = JST Gen. 50 comparison <PDF> <WP.zip> ("A seer shall the Lord raise up out of thy loins")
    • See Painting of "The Two Josephs" by L. Young.
    • II Nephi 3 chiasm by SDA <PDF> (Sticks of Judah and Joseph "shall grow together")
    • II Nephi 3 parallel <PDF> <WP.zip> (by Gail L. Porritt: "The Seer" and "the Spokesman")
    • II Nephi 3 chiasm by ZF <WP.zip> (by Zen Featherstone)
    • II Nephi 3 substructure <PDF> <WP.zip> <in script> ("An instrument in the hands of God")
  • II Nephi 9
    • II Nephi 9&10 parallel <PDF> <WP.zip> (Temporal and spiritual covenant compared/contrasted.)
    • II Nephi 9:17-38 = Hebrews 12 parallel <PDF> <WP.zip> ("take up the cross, despise the shame, set down in the kingdom of God")
  • II Nephi 11
    • II Nephi 11 chiasm <PDF> <in script> (Pre-Isaiah quote; "delighteth in the covenants of the Lord")
    • Deut.19 = Mat.18 = II Cor.13 = II Ne.11 = D&C 6 = Ether 5 = D&C 128 parallel <PDF> <WP and Word.zip> ("In the mouth of two or three witnesses")
  • II Nephi 12 (Isaiah 2) chiasm <PDF> ("proud shall be brought low")
  • II Nephi 25:1-10 chiasm <PDF> (Post-Isaiah quotation comment; "manner of the Jews")
  • II Nephi 26
    • II Nephi 26 chiasms  <PDF> <WP.zip> <in script> (26:1-9 chiasm >"Buildings; Fall; Grind them to Powder;" 26:10-12 chiasm >"Shall reap destruction;" [physical] "Go down to hell" [spiritual];  26:10-18 chiasm >"Convincing Jews and Gentiles that Jesus is the very Christ;" 26:13-20 chiasm >"The Lord will give unto him power that he may whisper...")
    • II Nephi 26:20-28 parallel <PDF> <WP.zip> ("None are forbidden, both Jew and Gentile.") 
    • II Nephi 26 Diagram
  • 2 Nephi 27 - Isaiah 29 comparison. <PDF> (II Ne. 27 is a quotation of Isa. 29, with commentary)
  • II Nephi 28
    • II Nephi 28 Parallels Isaiah 28 -- Excerpt
      Classic example of parallel structure and polemical result.  Drunkards of Ephraim say 'all is well in Zion,' 'we have enough and we need no more.'
    • (II Nephi 28 is included in the Second Nephi Huge parallel listed above)
    • II Nephi 28 chiasm <PDF> (>"And great must be the fall thereof")  Download WP.zip.
    • II Nephi 28 parallel <PDF> ("Wo be unto the Gentiles..., for they will deny me")  Download WP.zip.
    • II Nephi 28 = Isaiah 28,29 parallel <PDF> <WP.zip> <in script> {See INDEX listing the file subdivision of this very large parallel} ("Drunkards of Ephraim, people, priest and prophet;" "All is well;" "We have enough, we need no more;" "Line upon line, precept upon precept")
    • Commentaries on Isaiah 28 = II Nephi 28 parallel
      • Isaiah 28:2-3  in parallel to II Nephi 28:16-19 "The Drunkards of Ephraim" and "the Great and Abominable Church"
      • Isaiah 28:7  in parallel to II Nephi 28:21-23 "Strong Drink" & "the Prophet"
      • Isaiah 28:16  in parallel to II Nephi 28:32 "They Will Deny Me"
    • II Nephi 28 = Isaiah 28 = Isaiah 29 Diagram
  • II Nephi 33
    • The New Covenant and Witness multi-chapter inter-book parallel:  Jeremiah 31 = 1 Corinthians 11-13 = Ephesians 1,4 = 3 Nephi 12,18 = Moroni 6,7,10 = D&C 46 parallel [includes II Ne. 3,29,31,33].)  (24 pages.) <PDF> <zip file>
    • II Nephi 33 chiasm <PDF> <WP.zip> (>Nephites, Jews, Gentiles are on a parallel)
    • II Nephi 33 chiasm diagram.
  • Alma - Moroni (separate index)

• Overarching Book of Mormon Patterns  {From The Vision of All:  Our Past, Present, and Future as Foretold in Book of Mormon History, by S.D.A.}
  •   Temporal Parallel between the Lehite nation (Book of Mormon history) and the history of Israel from beginning to end.
  •   Spiritual Parallel between these two civilizations and an individual in his/her progression through life.
  • Parallels Between Lehite and Jaredite History
  • Parallels Between the First Portion of Lehite History and the Vision of the Tree of Life
  • Parallels Between the Latter Portion of Lehite History and the Vision of the Tree of Life
  • Parallels Between the Earlier and the Latter Portions of Lehite History

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