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3 Nephi 8:18 · Helaman 14:22

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Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 8:18
"the rocks were rent in twain; they were broken up upon the face of the whole earth, insomuch that they were found in broken fragments, and in seams and in cracks"
Book of Mormon Helaman 14:22
"they shall be rent in twain, and shall ever after be found in seams and in cracks, and in broken fragments upon the face of the whole earth"

Shared words: upon the face of the whole earth

The tightest verbal contact on the page: Samuel's death-sign for the rending rocks (Helaman 14:21-22), narrated as fulfilled with several of his exact phrases reordered -- 'rent in twain,' 'seams and in cracks,' 'broken fragments,' 'the face of the whole earth'. 'seams and in cracks' occurs in the corpus only at Helaman 14:22 (prophecy) and 3 Nephi 8:18 (fulfillment); 'rent in twain' by itself is common (six loci in the record: Alma 14:27; Helaman 10:8, 14:22; 3 Nephi 8:18, 28:19; 4 Nephi 1:30; the frozen New Testament adds Matthew 27:51 and Mark 15:38, the temple-veil rending), so the distinctiveness is the phrase-cluster, not the single phrase. This is Samuel's Helaman 14 leg only. The same catastrophe fulfills the destruction-mode list the record attributes to Zenos (1 Nephi 19:11-12), hosted on zenos.md, and is audited in-text at 3 Nephi 10:14-17 (naming Zenos and Zenock).

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