Ether 8:9 · Alma 37:29
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The combination is itself record-transmitted evil -- the daughter of Jared revives the oaths not by inventing them but by READING them out of the old account: 'Hath he not read the record which our fathers brought across the great deep? … an account concerning them of old, that they by their secret plans did obtain kingdoms and great glory' (Ether 8:9). That is the precise danger Alma's embargo was laid to forestall: 'ye shall keep these secret plans of their oaths and their covenants from this people' (Alma 37:29) -- the plans withheld, as the embargo verse states, 'lest peradventure they should fall into darkness' (Alma 37:27). The shared phrase is 'secret plans' -- a seven-verse corpus phrase (Alma 37:29, 37:32; Ether 8:9, 9:26, 13:15; Helaman 11:10, 11:26), the recurring lexeme of the whole withheld-oaths thread. Alma 37:29 is chosen over 37:27 (which anchors the embargo record eth-sc-embargo-third) and over 37:21 (the twenty-four-plates verse, but its valence is 'made manifest', the opposite of concealment) because 37:29 shares the exact phrase 'secret plans' and states the embargo's rationale specifically about the plans being read and transmitted. Cross-link hel-sc-buried-plans-inversion (Helaman 11:10 <-> Alma 37:29): where the Nephites bury their own secret plans and Alma sealed the old ones, the daughter of Jared is the archetype of the reader the embargo feared.