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Helaman 5:21 · Mosiah 7:7

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Book of Mormon Helaman 5:21
"even in that same prison in which Ammon and his brethren were cast by the servants of Limhi"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 7:7
"they were surrounded by the king's guard, and were taken, and were bound, and were committed to prison"

An explicit narrative back-link the text makes itself. When Nephi and Lehi (sons of Helaman) are imprisoned in the land of Nephi, the narrator pins the location to the earlier book by name: Helaman 5:21 says they were cast "into prison; yea, even in that same prison in which Ammon and his brethren were cast by the servants of Limhi." The casting it points back to is Mosiah 7:7 (Ammon, the expedition leader, and his three brethren): "they were surrounded by the king's guard, and were taken, and were bound, and were committed to prison." The link is propositional/locative, not verbal — the two verses share no distinctive phrase; what binds them is the named prison and the named men ("Ammon and his brethren"). This is the FIRST material to attach to ammon-of-zarahemla.md after the book of Mosiah: the page documented a zero across all of Alma, and Helaman 5:21 reverses that zero (the expedition leader's name re-enters the record roughly ninety years later (in-corpus arithmetic: expedition ~year 479-480 from Lehi per Mosiah 6:4 + 7:1; Helaman 5:21 in the 62nd year of the judges ~ year 571 per Mosiah 29:46), used only as the geographic anchor for a later imprisonment). On the two Ammons: "Ammon and his brethren" at Helaman 5:21 is the EXPEDITION LEADER of Mosiah 7 (this page's subject), not Ammon the son of Mosiah — Mosiah 7:7's "committed to prison" episode is precisely Ammon-the-leader's, and Helaman 5:21 names "the servants of Limhi", placing the prison in Limhi's land of Nephi (Mosiah 7-22), the only book where this Ammon and Limhi share a scene. The register record `mos-ammon-capture-retold` already holds the Mosiah-internal pair Mosiah 7:7 ↔ Mosiah 21:23 (the same arrest narrated twice within Mosiah). This new record reuses the Mosiah 7:7 quote as the FAR end of a DIFFERENT near end (Helaman 5:21), so it is not a duplicate verse-pair — Helaman 5:21 ↔ Mosiah 7:7 is new. Cross-links: land-of-nephi.md (the prison sits in the land of Nephi / Limhi's land) and nephi-helamanson.md (the prisoners back-linked are Nephi and his brother Lehi). The prison-theophany of Helaman 5:22-52 (fire, darkness, the still voice) belongs to nephi-helamanson.md and the Helaman prison-theophany cluster, NOT here; this page touches only the verse that names Ammon. Distribution: the back-reference clause "Ammon and his brethren were cast by the servants of Limhi" occurs at exactly one verse, Helaman 5:21; the source casting "committed to prison" of these men occurs at Mosiah 7:7.