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2 Nephi 14
Isaiah 4 surfaces in Nephi's record as a prophecy of the purged and reconstituted Zion. The opening image of seven women seeking one man's name signals a remnant seeking covenant cover after catastrophic loss — protection, not celestial polygamy. The branch of Jehovah rises as the glorified Christ whose fruit shelters those written among the living, an echo of the book of life. Purging by judgment and burning mirrors the Day of Atonement's two-fold cleansing. The cloud by day and fire by night restores the Mosaic wilderness canopy — Sinai covenant imagery reapplied to literal Zion — and the tabernacle becomes both defense and refuge for the gathered remnant.
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And in that day, seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach.
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In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious; the fruit of the earth excellent and comely to them that are escaped of Israel.
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And it shall come to pass, they that are left in Zion and remain in Jerusalem shall be called holy, every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem—
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When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.
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And the Lord will create upon every dwelling-place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for upon all the glory of Zion shall be a defence.
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And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and a covert from storm and from rain.
