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1 Nephi 4:18 · 1 Samuel 17:51

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Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 4:18
"and I smote off his head with his own sword"
Old Testament 1 Samuel 17:51
"and slew him, and cut off his head therewith"

Nephi "smote off his head with his own sword"; David "cut off his head therewith" (1 Samuel 17:51). The shared run is "off his head", plus "his own sword" / "his sword"; the verbs differ ("smote off" / "cut off"). The paraphrase claim rests on the two-step sequence — draw the fallen owner's sword from its sheath, behead him with it — anchored by the companion sheath-draw record (1 Nephi 4:9, 1ne-sword-sheath-draw).

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