Mormon 1:2 · 4 Nephi 1:48
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The cross-book custody hinge: the single event of Ammaron hiding up the sacred records, narrated at both book-seams. 4 Nephi 1:48 closes 4 Nephi with Ammaron hiding the records; Mormon 1:2 opens the next book by dating the boy Mormon's commission to that same act ('about the time that Ammaron hid up the records'). Shared: the proper name Ammaron + the hide-up clause — 1:2 'hid up the records', 1:48 'did hide up the records'. The relay it launches runs across Mormon: Ammaron charges Mormon at twenty-four to 'take the plates of Nephi unto yourself' (Mormon 1:4); Mormon, near where 'Ammaron had deposited the records', takes 'the plates of Nephi, and did make a record according to the words of Ammaron' (Mormon 2:17); he goes 'to the hill Shim, and did take up all the records which Ammaron had hid up unto the Lord' (Mormon 4:23); and finally he deposits them in Cumorah 'save it were these few plates which I gave unto my son Moroni' (Mormon 6:6). The 4 Nephi 1:48 quote is the tightest contiguous run: 'being constrained by the Holy Ghost' sits inside it and 'yea, even all the sacred records…' follows the em-dash.