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Mosiah 22:11 · Mosiah 24:18

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 22:11
"the people of king Limhi did depart by night into the wilderness with their flocks and their herds"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 24:18
"Alma and his people in the night-time gathered their flocks together"

Claim offered for weighing: the book tells the two captivities as a deliberately mirrored pair under one thesis-formula (23:23/24:21). Shared skeleton (textual): surrounded and burdened; cry mightily (21:14/24:10); burdens eased before freedom (21:15/24:14-15); night departure with flocks (22:11/24:18); insensible guards (drunken 22:7 / profound sleep 24:19); failed pursuit (22:16/24:23); same received-with-joy arrival clause (22:14/24:25 with linking 'also'). Asymmetries (textual): three armed risings fail vs no arms taken; slow hearing 'because of their iniquities' vs direct voice of the Lord; human stratagem vs miracle; reflexive 'deliver themselves' only in chs. 21-22 (21:5, 21:36, 22:1, 22:2x2) vs divine first-person 'I will… deliver' only in ch. 24 (24:13, 16, 17). Counter-consideration: the Lord works through human means in BOTH stories (Gideon's hearkened plan; Alma sent before the people), so the mirror cannot be flattened to stratagem-vs-miracle. That the contrast is a designed argument is a reading the text never states.