Mosiah 29:16 · Mosiah 23:7
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The ten-word clause 'it is not expedient that ye should have a king' is identical in both verses and occurs at exactly these two verses in the corpus (23:7 also carries the first-person variant 'it is not expedient that we should have a king'). The corpus's two anti-kingship declarations: Alma's refusal at Helam and Mosiah's letter. 2 Nephi 5:18 ('I, Nephi, was desirous that they should have no king') is the thematic ancestor but shares no distinctive phrasing. Mosiah 25:6 reports Mosiah read 'the account of Alma and his brethren' to the people before the letter was written; whether the letter draws on Alma's speech the text does not state.