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Mormon 5:24 · 3 Nephi 21:12

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Book of Mormon Mormon 5:24
"a remnant of the seed of Jacob shall go forth among you as a lion, and tear you in pieces, and there is none to deliver"
Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 21:12
"my people who are a remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles, yea, in the midst of them as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he go through both treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver"

Shared words: as a lion

Near-verbatim shared phrasing on the skeleton: remnant of Jacob + as a lion + tear/teareth in pieces + none to deliver / none can deliver. The phrase 'as a lion' occurs 3x in the record: 3 Ne 20:16; 3 Ne 21:12; Mormon 5:24; corpus-wide it is a common simile, standing at a dozen or more further verses across the frozen Old Testament (Genesis 49:9, Numbers 24:9, Hosea 5:14, and others). Micah was retired from the comparanda class by name on 2026-07-26 and is an ordinary frozen-canon endpoint. Both 3 Ne 20:16 and 21:12 track Micah 5:8, and those two parallels are registered in their own right -- 3ne-cov-micah-lion-20-16 and 3ne-cov-micah-lion-21-12, hosted on this same page. THIS record is a different verse-pair, pairing Mormon 5:24 with the discourse's own 3 Ne 21:12, and makes no claim about Micah. Mormon turns the discourse's promise-image (the remnant of Jacob as an unstoppable lion among the Gentiles) back on those same Gentiles as a warning.