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Helaman 11:10 · Alma 37:29

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Book of Mormon Helaman 11:10
"they have concealed their secret plans in the earth"
Book of Mormon Alma 37:29
"ye shall keep these secret plans of their oaths and their covenants from this people"

The verbal overlap is exact and narrow — 'secret plans' occurs in both verses. The offered reading: the people's burial of Gadianton's texts (11:10) inverts Alma's archival embargo (37:29) — where Alma sealed the Jaredite originals so the people 'know them not', the Nephites here bury the plans their own Gadianton order generated. Counter-consideration: 11:10 is a report of concealment as a fact of the extinction, not a deliberate echo of Alma's command, and the very next book-internal development (11:26) shows the burial fails — robbers 'search out all the secret plans of Gadianton' and re-derive the order. The inversion is offered for weighing, not asserted as the text's design.

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