Ether 3:23 · Alma 37:23
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The two interpreter-stones the Lord gives the brother of Jared to seal up with his written vision (Ether 3:23) are the seer-stone instrument — the 'Gazelem' stone Alma later charges Helaman to preserve alongside the twenty-four plates (Alma 37:23). Ether 3:24 ('I will cause in my own due time that these stones shall magnify to the eyes of men these things which ye shall write') and Ether 4:5 ('I have sealed up the interpreters, according to the commandment of the Lord') complete the Jaredite end. Paraphrase: the two endpoint quotes share no distinctive contiguous string — the tie is the object-identity (the two sealed stones = the Gazelem seer-stone instrument). Alma 37:23's signature phrase 'shine forth in darkness' verbally matches Ether 3:4 — the SIXTEEN barge-stones prayer ('prepare them that they may shine forth in darkness') — NOT the two interpreter-stones; that diction must never be cited as phrase-evidence for this record. These TWO sealed interpreter-stones are NOT the SIXTEEN molten barge-lights of Ether 3:1 / 6:2 — different objects, different purpose. The seer/interpreters doctrine: mos-cfs-called-seer (Mosiah 8:13 ↔ 28:16), mos-cfs-interpret-languages (Mosiah 8:6 ↔ Omni 1:25).