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Alma 24:18 · Alma 53:11

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Book of Mormon Alma 24:18
"rather than shed the blood of their brethren they would give up their own lives"
Book of Mormon Alma 53:11
"they had taken an oath that they never would shed blood more"

The two-generation hinge of the people of Ammon. Alma 24:18 is the buried-swords covenant as the king's record states it at the moment of burial; Alma 53:11 is the editor naming that same act 'their oath' two generations later when the people nearly break it under Nephite pressure. The covenant made and the covenant remembered/tested - the editor draws the through-line himself.

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