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Helaman 1:11 · Helaman 6:22

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Book of Mormon Helaman 1:11
"they all entered into a covenant, yea, swearing by their everlasting Maker, that they would tell no man"
Book of Mormon Helaman 6:22
"they did have their signs, yea, their secret signs, and their secret words"

Internal pair within Helaman: the book documents the oath at its first, ad-hoc occurrence (Kishkumen's murderers covenant 'that they would tell no man', 1:11) and then its full institutionalization. The institutional protocol is a span, 6:21-24: oaths of mutual protection (6:21), secret signs and secret words to identify a covenant-brother (6:22), licence to 'murder, and plunder, and steal, and commit whoredoms' (6:23), and a private judiciary — tried 'according to the laws of their wickedness, which had been given by Gadianton and Kishkumen' (6:24). 6:22 is the tightest verbal pair to the founding covenant; the wider protocol span is disclosed in the page prose.

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