GOSPEL WIKI

Gospel Wiki Connections mos-sword-conferred

Mosiah 1:16 · Words of Mormon 1:13

Textual Shared phrasing

This connection's citations are checked against the source text.

The badges and the mark are separate signals: Textual and Interpretive name the kind of claim a connection makes, while the mark reports that the connection's citations were checked.

Book of Mormon Mosiah 1:16
"he also gave him charge concerning the records which were engraven on the plates of brass; and also the plates of Nephi; and also, the sword of Laban, and the ball or director"
Book of Mormon Words of Mormon 1:13
"he did fight with the strength of his own arm, with the sword of Laban"

Shared words: the sword of Laban

Same man at both ends: Benjamin confers (Mosiah 1:16) the blade he was last seen wielding (WoM 1:13). Verbal contact is the object's name itself - grep confirms 'the sword of Laban' occurs in exactly four verses of the corpus (2 Nephi 5:14, Jacob 1:10, WoM 1:13, Mosiah 1:16); Mosiah 1:16 is its only Mosiah occurrence and the record's first explicit person-to-person transmission of the object. Typed shared-phrasing per the page's chain precedent (jac-sword-wielded, sb-benjamin-sword also rest on the name). HONESTY GUARD: Mosiah 28:20's conferral to Alma the younger names 'all the records, and also the interpreters' - the sword is NOT named there; the page states this and does not extend the custody chain past 1:16.

Discussed on

The Sword of Laban