3 Nephi 24:1 · Malachi 3:1
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The Malachi import's head verse, with its provenance embedded in the quotation. 3 Nephi 24-25 reproduce Malachi 3-4 near-verbatim; the block is framed by the Lord's own attribution -- 'he commanded them that they should write the words which the Father had given unto Malachi… Thus said the Father unto Malachi—' (24:1, the words unique to 3 Nephi that wrap the quotation). Malachi 3:1's messenger / prepare-the-way / messenger-of-the-covenant oracle is reproduced word-for-word modulo punctuation (Malachi's colons become commas/semicolon) and the divine-name casing ('LORD of hosts' -> 'Lord of Hosts'). PROVENANCE (carried as page prose, not a separate record): the import certifies its own absence from the brass plates -- 'These scriptures, which ye had not with you, the Father commanded that I should give unto you; for it was wisdom in him that they should be given unto future generations' (26:2). Malachi post-dates Lehi's departure from Jerusalem, and the record says so in its own voice; this is the cleanest self-certified import in the corpus (contrast the Isaiah 29 braid, which the corpus's people already possessed via the brass plates). Malachi functions in this register the way Isaiah does -- a source the record itself quotes AND names, so connections run to it directly on the record's own attribution. Matthew and Micah are legal endpoints too (Matthew retired from the comparanda class at the NT freeze, 2026-07-09; Micah by name on 2026-07-26): the Micah 4-5 parallels are now registered on covenant-of-israel.md as shared phrasing, and where a Matthew 5-7 comparison still stands unregistered on a page it does so as a display choice, not because law forbids the endpoint. What sets Malachi apart is the attribution, not its endpoint status -- the record names Malachi as its source; the Micah material names no source at all.