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Mosiah 21:23 · Mosiah 7:10

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 21:23
"the king having been without the gates of the city with his guard, discovered Ammon and his brethren; and supposing them to be priests of Noah therefore he caused that they should be taken, and bound, and cast into prison"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 7:10
"I desire to know the cause whereby ye were so bold as to come near the walls of the city, when I, myself, was with my guards without the gate"

Shared words: of the city

The same arrest narrated twice — chapter 7's front narrative and the colony record's flashback in chapter 21 — sharing the guards-outside-the-gate collocation: "with my guards without the gate" (7:10, singular) / "without the gates of the city with his guard" (21:23, plural). Searching both forms word-bounded (2026-08-30), the corpus holds exactly three gate-form verses: these two and Hebrews 13:12's "suffered without the gate", an unrelated passage. Mosiah 21:19 states the standing motive: "the king himself did not trust his person without the walls of the city, unless he took his guards with him". Verified from raw after external prompting (a public interview's internal-consistency list); the suggestion was checked against raw, not adopted.

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