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2 Nephi 31:8 · 1 Nephi 11:27

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Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 31:8
"after he was baptized with water the Holy Ghost descended upon him in the form of a dove"
Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 11:27
"I beheld the heavens open, and the Holy Ghost come down out of heaven and abide upon him in the form of a dove"

Shared words: upon him in the form of a dove

The phrase 'in the form of a dove' occurs at exactly three verses in the corpus (recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze) — these two and D&C 93:15 — tying the doctrine's baptism account to Nephi's vision of the same event.

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