Ether 10:5 · Mosiah 11:2
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Shared distinctive phrase: 'many wives and concubines', which occurs in the corpus at exactly six verses (recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze): Jacob 1:15, Jacob 2:24, Mosiah 11:2, Ether 10:5 -- the last being Riplakish, the Jaredite tax-and-buildings oppressor -- and D&C 132:1 and 132:38. THREE further narrative contacts, reported as textual facts, not all of them shared wording: (1) tax-funded 'many spacious buildings' -- Ether 10:5 'with the taxes he did build many spacious buildings' <-> Mosiah 11:8 'many elegant and spacious buildings' / 11:9 'a spacious palace' (shared phrasing on 'spacious buildings'); (2) the heavy-tax burden -- Ether 10:5 'did lay that upon men's shoulders which was grievous to be borne; yea, he did tax them with heavy taxes' <-> Mosiah 11:3 'he laid a tax of one fifth part of all they possessed' (shared CONCEPT, heavy taxation; wording differs -- not a phrase match); (3) the opening negative-verdict frame -- Ether 10:5 'did not do that which was right in the sight of the Lord' <-> Mosiah 11:2 'he did not keep the commandments of God, but he did walk after the desires of his own heart' (both kings introduced by a condemnation formula; the WORDINGS differ -- a narrative-role parallel, not shared phrasing). DISTINCT verse-pairs, all sharing 'many wives and concubines' but none duplicated: mos-noah-wives is Mosiah 11:2 <-> Jacob 2:24 (Noah <-> the David/Solomon precedent) and jac-chastity-david is Jacob 1:15 <-> Jacob 2:24 (the precedent within Jacob, chastity-and-marriage.md); this record is Ether 10:5 <-> Mosiah 11:2 (Riplakish <-> Noah), a different near-end. Whether the abridgment stages Riplakish as a deliberate Noah-type is a compositional reading the text never states -- left unasserted on the page.