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Mosiah 23:4 · Mosiah 18:5

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 23:4
"And they came to a land, yea, even a very beautiful and pleasant land, a land of pure water"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 18:5
"Now, there was in Mormon a fountain of pure water"

Shared words: of pure water

The phrase 'pure water' occurs at exactly these two verses in the record; the other corpus occurrences are Hebrews 10:22 ('our bodies washed with pure water', a baptismal image, not a place) and D&C 84:92 ('cleanse your feet even with water, pure water', likewise a washing image and not a place) — four corpus verses in all, recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze; the place-versus-washing contrast the record draws is unaffected. Both record verses name a refuge of the same fleeing people - the hiding place at Mormon (a fountain) and the eight-days-distant land of Helam (a whole land). The shared phrase and the refuge-to-refuge sequence are textual fact; the difference of scale (fountain -> land) is reported, and any designed escalation is left to the reader, not asserted.