Alma 37:4 · 1 Nephi 5:18
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Citation-and-source pair: Alma reports a prophecy 'by our fathers' that the plates ('they' — antecedent 'these plates of brass', Alma 37:3) should go forth to the nations; 1 Nephi 5:18 is that prophecy on record — Lehi, filled with the Spirit at the first searching (5:17), prophesying the same destiny for the same object. A paraphrase, not distinctive shared phrasing: the spread-formula is a frequent corpus idiom — the singular 'nation, kindred, tongue, and people' occurs in 9 corpus verses — 7 in the record (six with the serial comma; 1 Nephi 19:17 reads 'nation, kindred, tongue and people') plus D&C 77:8 and 77:11 — and the plural 'nations, kindreds, tongues, and people' in 11 — 7 in the record (five with the comma; 3 Nephi 28:29 and Mosiah 27:25 drop it) plus D&C 7:3, 42:58, 88:103 and 112:1; both recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze — so the shared run is not distinctive. What IS distinctive: 1 Nephi 5:18 is the ONLY corpus verse joining 'plates of brass' and 'go forth', and Alma 37:4 is the only other verse applying the spread-formula to the plates (by pronoun). Divergences reported as facts: 5:18 restricts to 'people who were of his seed' where 37:4 carries no seed restriction and adds 'that they shall know of the mysteries contained thereon'; 5:18 runs plural, 37:4 singular. Sibling records on Alma 37:4, distinct pairs and claims: hel-cfs-handed-down (Helaman 3:16 far end, custody formula); alma-brass-brightness-permanence hosts the neighboring 37:5 brightness reading on this same page — this record is the textual citation-match that callout already gestured at.