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3 Nephi 21:12 · Micah 5:8

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Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 21:12
"my people who are a remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles, yea, in the midst of them as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he go through both treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver"
Old Testament Micah 5:8
"And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver"

Shared words: as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he go through both treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver

The discourse's second statement of the lion figure, and the nearer of the two to Micah 5:8 -- which is why it is registered as its own verse-pair rather than folded into 3ne-cov-micah-lion-20-16. Three differences between the two Bountiful statements make the point, each a textual fact: (1) 21:12 keeps Micah's third-person frame ('my people who are a remnant of Jacob shall be' against Micah's 'And the remnant of Jacob shall be') where 20:16 turns it to second person ('Then shall ye, who are a remnant of the house of Jacob'); (2) 21:12 sets Micah's two locative clauses contiguously and names the Gentiles in them -- 'shall be among the Gentiles, yea, in the midst of them' against Micah's 'shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people' -- where 20:16 separates them, leaves the Gentiles unnamed at that point (the antecedent is one verse earlier at 20:15) and reads 'in the midst of them who shall be many'; (3) 21:12 reads 'if he go through' with Micah, where 20:16 reads 'goeth'. Registering only one of the two would hide which is the closer match. COUNTS (rule: distinct frozen verses in the corpus per R2-Q36; comma-tolerant per R2-Q32): the exact string 'remnant of Jacob' stands at eight corpus verses -- 2 Nephi 20:21, 3 Nephi 21:12, 3 Nephi 21:22, 3 Nephi 21:23, D&C 52:2, Isaiah 10:21, Micah 5:7, Micah 5:8 (D&C 52:2 joined the field at the D&C freeze; recounted 2026-08-11 at the corpus-figure sweep); 'none can deliver' at exactly three -- 3 Nephi 20:16, 3 Nephi 21:12, Micah 5:8. ATTRIBUTION -- UNATTRIBUTED: as with the 20:16 record, the record never names Micah and the discourse gives the words to the Father, so this record asserts the verbal correspondence only; the quotation question is weighed on the page, not settled here. asserted_by is absent (= wiki). NOTE ON OVERLAP: 3 Nephi 21:12 is also the far end of morm-cov-lion-among-gentiles (Mormon 5:24 <-> 3 Nephi 21:12), which registers a different verse-pair and a different observation -- Mormon turning the discourse's promise-image back on the Gentiles as warning.