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Mosiah 11:12 · Mosiah 19:6

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 11:12
"he built a tower near the temple; yea, a very high tower, even so high that he could stand upon the top thereof and overlook the land of Shilom, and also the land of Shemlon, which was possessed by the Lamanites"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 19:6
"the king cast his eyes round about towards the land of Shemlon, and behold, the army of the Lamanites were within the borders of the land"

Shared words: the land of Shemlon

Internal narrative callback within Noah's own arc: the construction notice ('tower near the temple… overlook… the land of Shemlon') is verbally re-activated at the death-flight - Mosiah 19:5 supplies the locator 'the tower which was near the temple', and 19:6 has Noah looking 'towards the land of Shemlon' to see the Lamanite army. Recorded as textual fact (same object, repeated wording); the ironic reading (the vanity project becomes the vantage of his downfall) is left to the reader, not asserted.