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Helaman 14:22 · 1 Nephi 19:12

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Book of Mormon Helaman 14:22
"they shall be rent in twain, and shall ever after be found in seams and in cracks"
Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 19:12
"the rocks of the earth must rend"

A second, independent contact between Samuel's death-sign and the Zenos prophecy: the rending of the rocks. Samuel's earth-answer ('the rocks… shall be rent in twain', Helaman 14:21-22 — 'the rocks' standing in 14:21, the rending clause opening 14:22) echoes Zenos's 'the rocks of the earth must rend' (1 Nephi 19:12 — the verse attributed to Zenos by name, 'saith the prophet Zenos'). Shared element: rocks rending at the death of Christ ('rent in twain' / 'must rend'). This stands independently of the three-days-darkness record above because it pairs a different Helaman verse (14:22) against a different 1 Nephi verse (19:12, not 19:10) — two distinct verbal contacts, registered separately. Helaman 14:21 supplies the fuller description ('which ye know at this time are solid… shall be broken up'); 14:22 chosen as the single-verse host carrying the 'rent'/'rend' contact. FORWARD-WATCH: 3 Nephi 8 fulfillment — do NOT anticipate.

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