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3 Nephi 1:19 · Helaman 14:3

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Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 1:19
"there was no darkness in all that night, but it was as light as though it was mid-day"
Book of Mormon Helaman 14:3
"in the night before he cometh there shall be no darkness, insomuch that it shall appear unto man as if it was day"

Samuel's prophesied night without darkness (Helaman 14:3-4), narrated as fulfilled. Shared clause — 14:3 'there shall be no darkness', 1:19 'there was no darkness'; the daylight simile is a paraphrase ('as light as though it was mid-day' <-> 'appear unto man as if it was day'). The onset is timed to Samuel's 'the night before he cometh': 'at the going down of the sun there was no darkness; and the people began to be astonished because there was no darkness when the night came' (3 Nephi 1:15). Fulfillment is stated by the record itself -- 3 Nephi 1:15 'the words which came unto Nephi were fulfilled' -- and sealed by the narrator's audit formula 'all things, every whit, according to the words of the prophets' (3 Nephi 1:20). Samuel is named the source of the words at stake at 1:5-6 ('spoken by Samuel, the Lamanite') and 'Samuel the prophet' at 1:9. The broader birth-signs ledger is hosted on messiah.md.

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