Omni 1:16 · 1 Nephi 17:17
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The phrase 'great waters' occurs at twenty-four verses across the frozen corpus (recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze), but only three describe a people's ocean crossing, all in the record: these two plus Ether 6:3 ('that they might not cross the great waters in darkness') — one for each migrating people. (Elsewhere the phrase is Old Testament imagery for the sea or the deep — Psalms, Ezekiel, Isaiah — the creation language of Moses and Abraham, and two Doctrine and Covenants verses, 110:3 and 118:4.) Disclosed so the restriction is visible rather than assumed: D&C 118:4 commands a crossing of the great waters — 'let them depart to go over the great waters, and there promulgate my gospel' — but sends messengers, not a migrating people, so it falls outside the three-crossing restriction rather than against it. Honest caveat on the page: the 1 Nephi occurrence is the murmuring brethren's speech; Omni's is the narrator's report of a crossing accomplished. The two-exodus structural rhyme is offered to weigh; the restriction to three crossing-verses in the record is the textual fact.