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Ether 13:21 · Omni 1:21

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Book of Mormon Ether 13:21
"And he should only live to see the fulfilling of the prophecies which had been spoken concerning another people receiving the land for their inheritance; and Coriantumr should receive a burial by them; and every soul should be destroyed save it were Coriantumr."
Book of Mormon Omni 1:21
"And they gave an account of one Coriantumr, and the slain of his people. And Coriantumr was discovered by the people of Zarahemla; and he dwelt with them for the space of nine moons."

Ether's ultimatum to Coriantumr (13:20-21) fixes the terms of the extinction: repent and be spared, or every soul be destroyed save Coriantumr himself, who would 'only live to see' another people take the land and 'receive a burial by them'. The prophecy lands generations later in Amaleki's record: the sole survivor Coriantumr is found by the people of Zarahemla and dwells with them nine moons (Omni 1:21) — 'another people' who had received the land, exactly as foretold. The text shows the discovery and the nine-month sojourn; the burial itself is implied, not narrated. The in-book countdown to the last two men standing (15:23-32) and Moroni's closing notice that Ether 'beheld that the words of the Lord had all been fulfilled' (15:33) confirm the prophecy internally; that in-book fulfillment notice is prose support, not a second record. The reinforcing word to Ether that 'Coriantumr should not fall by the sword' (14:24) is the same prophecy's guarantee that its subject would survive to see the end. Disambiguation: this Coriantumr — Ether's last king and, in the prophecy's own terms, the final battle's sole survivor (the prophet Ether alive to record the end) — is not the Coriantumr of Helaman 1:15 (a Nephite dissenter, 'a descendant of Zarahemla,' who led a Lamanite army against Zarahemla some centuries later); the two are separate men. The Omni Coriantumr is hosted as an entry on cited-and-minor-figures.md.