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Mosiah 29:13 · Mosiah 23:8

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 29:13
"if it were possible that you could have just men to be your kings"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 23:8
"if it were possible that ye could always have just men to be your kings it would be well for you to have a king"

Shared words: have just men to be your kings

The just-king concession clause shared nearly verbatim between Alma's Helam speech and Mosiah's letter ('you'/'ye'; Alma's 'always' lands later in Mosiah's own sentence: 'if this could always be the case'). The phrase 'just men to be your kings' occurs at exactly these two verses in the corpus. Companion to mos-kj-not-expedient: both halves of Alma's argument (concession + refusal) reappear in the letter.

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