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Helaman 14:20 · 1 Nephi 19:10

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Book of Mormon Helaman 14:20
"the sun shall be darkened and refuse to give his light unto you; and also the moon and the stars; and there shall be no light upon the face of this land, even from the time that he shall suffer death, for the space of three days, to the time that he shall rise again from the dead"
Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 19:10
"which he spake concerning the three days of darkness, which should be a sign given of his death"

Shared words: three days

Samuel the Lamanite independently re-issues the sign the record attributes to Zenos: 'three days' of darkness as the sign of the Redeemer's death. Shared element: the three-days-darkness death-sign ('for the space of three days' at Helaman 14:20 = 'the three days of darkness' at 1 Nephi 19:10), not a verbatim sentence — Samuel describes the phenomenon (sun/moon/stars darkened) where Zenos is cited only for the bare sign. Significance the book itself stages: this same book has just reported that Zenos 'was slain' for that testimony (Helaman 8:19, the slain-record above), so a Lamanite prophet re-utters the slain prophet's sign. The death-signs material is described in narrative on samuel-the-lamanite.md but the Zenos-contact record is hosted HERE per that page's own routing — samuel-the-lamanite.md lists its death-sign span (Helaman 14:14-22, 14:27) as hosted on Zenos. Helaman 14:27 restates the same span ('darkness should cover the face of the whole earth for the space of three days'); 14:20 chosen as the tightest single-verse host. FORWARD-WATCH: 3 Nephi 8 fulfillment — do NOT anticipate; not registered here.

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