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Omni 1:25 · Enos 1:1

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Book of Mormon Omni 1:25
"knowing king Benjamin to be a just man before the Lord"
Book of Mormon Enos 1:1
"knowing my father that he was a just man"

Shared words: a just man

Singular 'just man' occurs seven times in the record (Enos 1:1, Omni 1:25; Mosiah 2:4 - Benjamin again, 'a just man to be their king'; Mosiah 19:17, of Limhi; Alma 63:2; 3 Nephi 3:12, 8:1), plus plural 'just men' at Mosiah 2:4, 23:8, 23:17, 29:13, Alma 20:15; corpus-wide the singular is common (twenty verses under a word-bounded count, recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze — the frozen Bible and Moses 8:27 adding Matthew 1:19, 27:19, Acts 10:22, and others, and D&C 129:6 and 129:7 adding the just-man-made-perfect test for discerning messengers). The record's ground is narrower and still unique: the trust-formula — 'knowing my father that he was a just man' (Enos 1:1) / 'knowing king Benjamin to be a just man' (Omni 1:25) — occurs ONLY at these two verses. The handoff-trust framing is a separate interpretive callout.