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People
Nephi Lehison Nephi, son of Lehi: narrator and author; the obedient younger son who obtains the plates, builds the ship, receives the great vision, and founds the people of Nephi
Lehi the founding prophet-patriarch; dreamer of the tree of life; his final blessings fill 2 Nephi 1–4
Jacob Lehison Jacob, son of Lehi: firstborn in the wilderness; consecrated priest; the second voice of 2 Nephi and author of the Book of Jacob, to whom the angel reveals the name Christ
Sherem the record's first doctrinal antagonist: "there should be no Christ"; confounded, confessing, dead
Enos Jacobson Enos, son of Jacob: the wrestle before God, the widening prayer, and the covenant that the records will reach the Lamanites
Mosiah (the first) warned to flee the land of Nephi; discovers Zarahemla; interprets the stone "by the gift and power of God"
King Benjamin the seam-figure: wields the sword of Laban, receives the small plates, establishes peace
Mormon the record's editor, in his own voice: finds the small plates and keeps them "for a wise purpose"
Laman & Lemuel the two eldest sons; the recurring pattern of rebellion, ending in the separation
Sariah Lehi's wife; a mother's mourning turned to testimony
Sam the quietly faithful brother, whose seed is numbered with Nephi's
Zoram Laban's servant, folded into the family by oath; blessed as "a true friend unto my son, Nephi, forever"
Ishmael the household that provides the wives; buried at Nahom
Laban keeper of the brass plates, slain to obtain them
Abinadi the lone prophet to Noah's court: the interrupted Decalogue, Isaiah 53 read whole, his words sealed by death in fire
Zeniff the over-zealous returner to the land of Nephi; his first-person record of two Lamanite wars; father of Noah
King Noah taxes, priests, towers, and vineyards; burns Abinadi, and dies by fire as Abinadi prophesied
Limhi Noah's just son, king in bondage under tribute; receives Ammon, covenants with God, escapes by Gideon's plan
Alma the Elder Noah's priest who believed Abinadi; founder of the church at the waters of Mormon; leads his people through bondage in Helam
Alma the Younger the persecutor of the church turned prophet: the angel, the conversion, the first chief judge
Mosiah II Benjamin's son: seer and translator of the twenty-four plates, the record's last Nephite king, architect of the reign of judges
Gideon the king's captain turned deliverer: corners Noah on the tower, engineers Limhi's escape
Ammon of Zarahemla the strong and mighty leader of the expedition that finds Limhi's people
Amulek the second witness at Ammonihah: the angel's commission, the Zeezrom duel, the infinite-atonement discourse to the Zoramites
Zeezrom the bribing accuser converted: trembling, fever, healing on his faith, and a preacher from that time forth
Korihor the only figure the text labels "Anti-Christ": the no-prophecy doctrine, the demanded sign, struck dumb, trodden down
Ammon, son of Mosiah the kingship refused for a fourteen-year mission: Lamoni's servant, Sebus, the psalm of holy boasting
Aaron, son of Mosiah the Middoni prison, and the king who prayed "I will give away all my sins to know thee"
Abish the Lamanite woman converted years before the missionaries came; ran house to house when the court fell, and took the queen by the hand
Captain Moroni chief captain at twenty-five: the title of liberty, the fortifications, the epistle of condemnation
Helaman Almason Helaman, son of Alma: the testament's recipient and keeper of the records; the two thousand sons' captain and chronicler
Amalickiah an antagonist the record draws in detail: the triple fraud, the blood-oath, death by Teancum's javelin
Corianton the testament's third addressee: Isabel, the three named worries, the restored ministry
Shiblon the steady son: bonds and stoning borne with patience; custodian of the sacred things between his father and his nephew
Pahoran the third chief judge: the king-men crisis, the exile at Gideon, and the answer that refused anger
Teancum two night javelins, Amalickiah and Ammoron; slain in the second deed
Nephi Helamanson Nephi, son of Helaman: yields the judgment-seat to preach; the prison theophany, the garden-tower indictment, the Seantum script, the sealing power, the famine asked and reversed
Samuel the Lamanite the wall sermon entire: the four-hundred-years sentence, slippery treasures, the birth and death signs, the two deaths and the agency charter, the leap from the wall
Nephi Jr Nephi, son of Nephi Helamanson: the disciple; the all-day prayer answered on the eve of the sign, his brother Timothy raised, first called at the descent, the record-keeper the risen Lord audits
Nephi III keeper of the plates of Nephi, named once in the record at his death, where his son Amos succeeds him (4 Nephi 1:19)
Moroni Mormon's son: survives Cumorah, finishes his father's record, abridges the Jaredite plates as the book of Ether, and writes the closing book of Moroni
The Brother of Jared the unnamed founding Jaredite prophet: the sixteen molten stones, the finger of the Lord "like unto flesh and blood", the veil-piercing vision
Ether the Prophet the last Jaredite prophet, crying repentance from the cavity of a rock; his twenty-four-plate record is the book Moroni abridges
Cited & Minor Figures Joseph (Lehi's son), Jeremiah, Zenock/Neum, Moses, John the Apostle, David & Solomon, the keepers of the plates (Jarom to Amaleki), Coriantumr, Moroni — and the Alma catalog: Nehor, Zerahemnah, Lehonti, Ammoron, Isabel, Hagoth, Lamoni and his father, Anti-Nephi-Lehi, and the four name-collisions (Jacob, Lehi, Laman, Zoram)
Peoples
The People of Ammon the buried-swords covenant, the 1,005 martyrs, Jershon, and the sons' counter-covenant
The Zoramites the Rameumptom election-liturgy, the cast-out poor, and the dissent that turned to war
The Twelve Disciples chosen at the descent, the roster of 3 Nephi 19:4, the transmission at 3 Nephi 19:8 with "nothing varying", sacrament stewardship, judges of this people
The Three Who Tarry the unspoken desire granted, never to taste death; the transfiguration question Mormon adjudicates mid-record; names withheld
The Jaredites the first nation on the land: from the tower across the sea in eight barges to self-extinction at Ramah/Cumorah; their record is the twenty-four gold plates Moroni abridges
Events & texts
The Visitation at Bountiful the narrative spine of 3 Nephi 11–28: the Father's introduction, the descent and the nail-prints, the healings and the children, the sacrament, the record audit
The Sermon at the Temple 3 Nephi 12–14 against Matthew 5–7: every divergence quoted on both sides and reported as textual fact, the pattern offered to weigh
Places
Jerusalem the doomed city the family leaves; its destruction confirmed, captivity and return prophesied
The Valley of Lemuel the first base camp by the Red Sea
Nahom where Ishmael was buried (1 Nephi 16:34); the one place "which was called" by a name received, not given
Bountiful the fertile coast by the sea Irreantum, where the ship is built
The Promised Land the covenant destination, "choice above all other lands," "a land of liberty"
The Land of Nephi the settlement founded at the separation: the place Nephi, the temple, "after the manner of happiness" — then abandoned under Mosiah
Zarahemla the discovered land and people: a second exodus from Jerusalem, recordless; the union under Mosiah; the new center
The Waters of Mormon the fountain of pure water in the borders where Alma taught, baptized, and organized the church
Objects
The Brass Plates the record of the law and the prophets (incl. Isaiah and Joseph of Egypt) the family carries
The Liahona the brass ball/compass that guides by faith, carried into the new land
The Small Plates the record we are reading; commanded, made, and sealed across both books
The Ship built "not after the manner of men" to cross the sea
The Sword of Laban the fine blade by which the plates were obtained; pattern for many swords
The Title of Liberty the rent coat made a covenant standard: "In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom"
Concepts & Doctrines
Tree of Life / Love of God the central symbol of Lehi's dream and its cluster
Covenant & Gathering of Israel the Abrahamic promise, scattering and gathering, the second-time recovery
The New Jerusalem Ether's prophecy recorded by Moroni, and the risen Lord's naming at Bountiful: a holy city on this land, distinct from the old Jerusalem Lehi left
Opposition & Agency Lehi's discourse: "opposition in all things"; free to act and not to be acted upon
The Atonement / Plan of Redemption the infinite atonement, the two deaths, justice and mercy, grace
The Doctrine of Christ the text's own label: baptism, the Holy Ghost, press forward feasting on the word
Baptism the rite itself: the prescribed words and manner at Bountiful, the procedure at the waters of Mormon, the intake rule, and the case of the rite wanted with none in the land holding authority
The Temple in the Record the temple as institution: the word-census, the named temples (Nephi's, Jacob's, Benjamin's assembly, Noah's court, Bountiful), and the Noah's-temple/Nephi's-temple question
The Sacrament the fixed prayers of Moroni 4–5, word for word, anchored to the institution at Bountiful: witness, remembrance, take-the-name, always-remember, his Spirit
Faith, Hope, and Charity Mormon's synagogue sermon (Moroni 7) and the triad the corpus builds from Alma 32 through Ether 12 to its close: "charity is the pure love of Christ"
The Unchangeable God the constancy doctrine: the "same yesterday, today, and forever" refrain (seven record verses; Hebrews 13:8 makes eight corpus-wide), the shadow-of-changing denials, and the Moroni capstones
The Coming Forth of Scripture the sealed book, the marvelous work, "A Bible! A Bible!", the voice from the dust
Zion across all three voices: fight not against Zion; the laborer in Zion; the false "All is well in Zion" (2 Nephi 28:21)
The Two Churches the church of the Lamb vs. the great and abominable church, and 2 Nephi's many-churches critique
The Messiah / Redeemer the prophesied Christ; his name revealed by an angel; the six-hundred-years marker
The Olive-Tree Allegory Zenos's tame olive tree = the house of Israel: grafting, scattering, the last pruning, the weeping Lord of the vineyard
Riches & Pride Jacob's first count: seek the kingdom of God before riches; riches for the naked, the hungry, the captive
Chastity & Marriage the one-wife commandment, the David/Solomon excuse rejected, the Lamanite family reversal
Bondage & Deliverance the book of Mosiah's master pattern: two peoples brought into bondage, humbled, and delivered
The Church of God founded at the waters of Mormon, reorganized in Zarahemla; authority to baptize, discipline, and the Lord's "this is my church"
Kings & Judges from Benjamin's ideal kingship through Noah's tyranny to Mosiah's case against kings and the voice of the people — and, in Helaman, the failure clause executing
Secret Combinations the corpus's own term, earliest in the record's own order at 2 Nephi 9:9, though by internal chronology it reaches further back — to the Jaredites (Ether 8:18–24) and to Cain's day (Moses 5:51): Kishkumen's oath, Gadianton's craft, the institutional protocol, the genealogy of the oaths, the capture of the government
Cited prophets (sources)
Isaiah the prophet on the brass plates; quoted at length (1 Nephi 20–21 = Isaiah 48–49; 2 Nephi 7–8 = Isaiah 50–52:2; 2 Nephi 12–24 = Isaiah 2–14)
Joseph of Egypt the patriarch whose brass-plates prophecy foretells Moses and the choice seer
Zenos the prophet of the olive-tree allegory (Jacob 5) and the crucifixion-signs prophecy (1 Nephi 19)
Pearl of Great Price
Moses the mountain theophany, the six days in God's own voice, the Fall, and the first secret oath — with Genesis running beside it
Enoch the lad who became a seer, the God who weeps, and the city of Zion taken up into heaven
Abraham the altar deliverance, the covenant, Kolob and the reckoning of times, and the Gods who organize — with Genesis beside it
The First Vision Joseph Smith's own account: the pillar of light, Moroni and the plates, the sealed book, and the Priesthood of Aaron
The Olivet Discourse the Mount-of-Olives prophecy hosted twice: Joseph Smith—Matthew beside Matthew 24, every divergence laid down as fact
The Articles of Faith thirteen credal statements mapped to where the corpus teaches the same doctrine, with the honest absences stated plainly
Doctrine and Covenants
Joseph Smith the seer as the revelations' addressee: his gift, his fall and restoration, and the work that "shall go forth"
Oliver Cowdery the second elder: the gift of revelation, the attempt to translate, and the spirit of revelation defined
The Three Witnesses the promise, the condition of faith, and the testimony of three — beside the record's own witness texts
The Lost Writings the lost manuscript revelations: the work of God not frustrated, and the plates of Nephi standing ready
The Call to the Labor the marvelous work, the field white to harvest, and the shared section-openings of the calls
John the Beloved the tarrying disciple: the revelation's answer beside John 21 and the record's three Nephites
Endless Punishment Endless is the name, not the duration: the revelation's own explanation of its scripture words
Revelations Recorded Twice D&C 2 and 13 beside Joseph Smith—History's account of the same words, divergences laid down as fact
Emma Smith the corpus's one section addressed by name to a woman: the elect lady, her assignments, and the voice-unto-all close
Servants Named in the Calls the roster of every person the call revelations name, given exactly as the text gives them
The Missionary Charge the standing instructions of the sending: two by two, purse and scrip, the dust of the feet, and the sheaves
Commissions Revoked and Changed the revoking principle: callings given, made conditional, and taken back in the text's own words
The Two Priesthoods Melchizedek and Aaron: the greater and lesser orders, their reasons-why in the text's own etymology verses
Offices of the Church the duty lists of D&C 20 and 107, and the offices that stand outside them
The Order of the Church the church organized, under the commandments and under the laws of men
The Charge to the Ministry the standing charge sections: teach the scriptures, the new song, the family-support rules
The Councils of the Church the high council's minutes: procedure, lots, and the record the church keeps of itself
Common Consent all things done by common consent: the voting church in revelation and minutes
Gifts of the Spirit the gifts list of D&C 46 beside 1 Corinthians 12 and Moroni 10, three carriers of one catalog
Discerning the Spirits the tests the revelations give for telling spirits, and what is preached against what is received
The Order of Revelation who may receive for the church: the Moses comparison, the one-appointed rule, succession
The Twelve and the Seventy the modern quorums in the revelations' own words, beside — and distinct from — the record's twelve
Degrees of Glory the vision of the three glories: sun, moon, and stars in the text's own Pauline vocabulary
Sons of Perdition the only ones on whom the second death hath any power: the vision's hardest doctrine, quoted exactly
The Resurrection the trump sequence, the just and the unjust, and the record's first-resurrection language beside the revelations'
The Redemption of the Dead the 1918 vision: the spirit world opened, 1 Peter quoted by name, the mission among the dead
Light and Truth intelligence, light, and truth defined in the revelations' own equations
The Committing of Keys the messengers who came: Moses, Elias, Elijah, and the keys each verse names
Little Children and Accountability the revelations' answer on those who die before the years of accountability
The Word Sent to the Shakers the corpus's one revelation addressed to another church's doctrine, point by point
The Law of the Church section 42, the law the text itself names: commandments, consecration's first form, and the church's discipline
Consecration and Stewardship all these properties are mine: the order of stewardships, the storehouse, and the covenant's failure clauses
The Gathering to Zion the place and the going: land purchases, the city's site, and the gathering commanded and slowed
The Redemption of Zion Zion lost and promised again: the parables of her scattering and the conditions of her return
The Sabbath and the Fulness of the Earth the Lord's day, the oblations, and the earth's goods given with judgment
The Law of Tithing the standing law: one-tenth of all their interest annually, in the revelation's own words
The Dedicatory Prayer D&C 109: the Kirtland dedication, a prayer built from the revelations' own earlier words
The Houses Commanded the temples the revelations order built, with their conditions and consequences
Baptism for the Dead and the Record the ordinance, its recorder, and the epistles that cite Matthew by chapter and verse
Adversity and the Priesthood the prison sections: how long can thine hand, the powers of heaven, and the small helm
The Martyrdom Announcement section 135: the announcing report of the deaths, quoting the record it mourns
The Camp of Israel the order of the westward camp, deliberately thin where the text shares little
The Voice of Warning the preface: the Lord's own introduction to the book, and what it says the revelations are for
The Signs of the Coming section 45's Olivet retelling: the love of men waxing cold, the standard raised, the times of the Gentiles
The Kingdom Rolls Forth the stone cut without hands in the revelation's prayer form
The Revelation of John Explained section 77's Q&A on Revelation, with its citation offsets laid down as facts
The Wheat and the Tares the parable retold with the sowing re-ordered, beside Matthew 13
The Prophecy on Wars section 87 reported exactly, with fulfilment declined in both directions
The Day of the Lord the appendix: the red apparel, the bare arm, and the Isaiah fabric of section 133
The Word of Wisdom section 89 in its own words: the order, the promises, and what the text does and does not say
The Challenge to Write a Revelation section 67: the wisest man commanded to imitate the least revelation, and the outcome the text records
What Counts as Scripture the definition verse of D&C 68 and the Apocrypha ruling of 91
Questions on Isaiah section 113's question-and-answer on Isaiah, cited by chapter and verse
The White Stone section 130's question-and-answer verses: the stone of Revelation 2:17 named and rewritten, the two prophecies, and the reckoning of time
The School of the Prophets the named institution of D&C 88: the salutation word for word, the washing of feet, and the chapter of John it cites
Quotation and Attribution where a text names the prophet it quotes and the prophet's frozen book reads differently: the assembled Moses sentence, the Ezekiel naming, the law given to Nephi
Governments and Laws the we-believe declaration on governments, attributed by its own grammar
The Law of War and Forgiveness section 98: renounce war, the three-strikes forgiveness ladder, and the justified-and-rewarded clauses
The New and Everlasting Covenant section 132, quoted exactly where it meets Jacob 2 and states the opposite verdict
The Day of Transfiguration the earth's coming change in section 63's own figures
Sign-Seeking signs follow faith, not the reverse: 63's ruling beside the record's Korihor and Sherem
The Book of the Law of God section 85: the record kept, the steward's ledger, and the one mighty and strong
Chastening whom I love I also chasten: 95 and 106 beside the corpus's chastening verses
Adam-ondi-Ahman the place the revelations name, with Daniel cited by name
Taking the Name in Vain 63:60-64: the name spoken without authority, beside Exodus 20:7