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Alma 36:10 · Acts 9:9

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Book of Mormon Alma 36:10
"it was for the space of three days and three nights that I could not open my mouth, neither had I the use of my limbs"
New Testament Acts 9:9
"And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink"

Interpretive/structural: the two conversion narratives share a shape — a persecutor of the church/disciples (Alma 36:6 'seeking to destroy the church of God'; Mosiah 27:10 'going about to destroy the church of God' ~ Acts 9:1 'breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples') is struck down by a heaven-sent manifestation, falls to the earth (Mosiah 27:12, Alma 36:7 ~ Acts 9:4), is commanded to arise/stand (Mosiah 27:13, Alma 36:8 ~ Acts 26:16), lies incapacitated ~three days (Alma 36:10 'three days and three nights' ~ Acts 9:9 'three days'), and rises reborn to preach the faith he attacked. The one verbal anchor ('why persecutest thou') is registered separately as textual (ae-w1-02); this record carries only the structural reading and is hedged, never asserted as design or proof. Variants, reported not scored: Saul is struck blind, Alma struck dumb; Acts 9:9 counts three days while Mosiah 27:23 has the priests fast 'two days and two nights' before Alma recovers, though Alma's own retelling says 'three days and three nights' (Alma 36:10; 36:16 reads 'for three days and for three nights'). Well-known apologetic comparison — offered for weighing. Standing disclosure required on host.

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