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3 Nephi 28:19 · Alma 14:27

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Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 28:19
"the prisons could not hold them, for they were rent in twain"
Book of Mormon Alma 14:27
"the walls of the prison were rent in twain"

Shared words: were rent in twain

A prison rent in twain to free imprisoned servants of God. The bare phrase 'rent in twain' recurs in the corpus of rocks (3 Nephi 8:18; Helaman 14:22) and a temple (Helaman 10:8, conditional); applied to a prison it occurs at Alma 14:27 (the deliverance of Alma and Amulek at Ammonihah), here at 3 Nephi 28:19, and at 4 Nephi 1:30 — the same three disciples, the charter enacted. The intervening generation of the same miracle is Nephi and Lehi at Helaman 5:21-44, but there the walls trembled and did not fall (Helaman 5:27), so the rending proper is this three-point set while the pattern of miraculous prison-deliverance runs four generations. Extends, not duplicates, the existing same-prison backlink record (hel-amz-prison-backlink, Helaman 5:21 / Mosiah 7:7), which concerns which prison, not the rending.