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Alma 27:17 · Mosiah 27:18

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Book of Mormon Alma 27:17
"he was swallowed up in the joy of his God, even to the exhausting of his strength; and he fell again to the earth"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 27:18
"And now Alma and those that were with him fell again to the earth, for great was their astonishment"

Shared words: fell again to the earth

The exact phrase "fell again to the earth" stands at exactly two verses in the corpus (word-bounded search, 2026-08-30): these two. In Mosiah 27:18 Ammon is among "those that were with him" — his presence chained through 27:10's "he did go about secretly with the sons of Mosiah" and 27:34's naming of Ammon among those sons — who fall in astonishment before the angel; in Alma 27:17, at the reunion with Alma, he falls exhausted by joy. What the "again" of Alma 27:17 answers, the text does not say — Alma 19:14 has Ammon among the three who "had sunk to the earth" overpowered with joy — so a deliberate fear-to-joy callback to the conversion scene is an interpretive reading; the two-verse distribution of the phrase is the textual fact. Verified from raw after external prompting (a public interview's internal-consistency list); the suggestion was checked against raw, not adopted.

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