Ether 3:14 · Mosiah 15:2
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The premortal Christ states the Father-and-Son identity from his own mouth, before the incarnation - the same doctrine the corpus teaches through Abinadi (Mosiah 15) and Amulek (Alma 11). The far end is Mosiah 15:2, the tighter verbal partner to Ether 3:14's 'I am the Father and the Son': it shares the exact contiguous phrase 'the Father and the Son' (Abinadi: 'being the Father and the Son'). Runner-up Alma 11:39 ('he is the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth') states the same identity in answer to Zeezrom's 'Is the Son of God the very Eternal Father?' (Alma 11:38), but its distinctive wording matches Mosiah 15:4 ('the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth'), NOT Ether 3:14 - so it is a doctrinal companion witness carried in-note, not the shared-phrasing endpoint. The shared-phrasing tier requires the distinctive shared phrase, which only Mosiah 15:2 supplies, so Mosiah 15:2 stands as the far end. The phrase 'the Father and the Son' is itself recurring — in the record six verses carry it (the exact form at 2 Nephi 31:18, Mosiah 15:2, Mormon 9:12, Ether 3:14; the comma-separated 'the Father, and the Son' at 3 Nephi 11:27 and Ether 5:4), and corpus-wide, counted comma-tolerant like the record figure, the frozen New Testament, Pearl of Great Price and Doctrine and Covenants add nine more (the exact form at 1 John 2:22; 2 John 1:9; Moses 1:24; 5:9; 7:11; D&C 130:3; 137:3; 138:3; the comma-separated form at Moses 6:66) — recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze — so the pick rests on Abinadi's sustained Father-and-Son EXPOSITION at the far end (Mosiah 15:1-5), not on phrase rarity. Abinadi's full exposition (Mosiah 15:3 'The Father, because he was conceived by the power of God; and the Son, because of the flesh'; 15:4 'they are one God') is treated on abinadi.md; Amulek's on amulek.md; both cross-linked. Ether 3:14's opening clause 'prepared from the foundation of the world to redeem my people' enters the atonement.md redemption map. The spirit-body explanation (Ether 3:15-16) and the tactile theophany scene are hosted on brother-of-jared.md, cross-linked, not duplicated. After the resurrection the same self-naming 'I am Jesus Christ' is spoken in the first person at Bountiful (3 Nephi 9:15; 11:10), in this page's 3 Nephi section. Both quotes single-verse contiguous, verbatim.