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Mormon 8:26 · 2 Nephi 26:16

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Book of Mormon Mormon 8:26
"it shall come even as if one should speak from the dead"
Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 26:16
"those who shall be destroyed shall speak unto them out of the ground, and their speech shall be low out of the dust"

Moroni's announcement of the buried record's coming forth restates the dust-voice figure Nephi prophesied for the destroyed Nephites. The exact phrase 'even as if one should speak from the dead' is corpus-unique (grep: Mormon 8:26 only); the broader speak-from-the-dead figure recurs at 2 Nephi 27:13 ('the words of the faithful should speak as if it were from the dead') and Moroni's own Mormon 9:30 ('as though I spake from the dead'). 2 Nephi 26:16 is itself the near-verbatim of Isaiah 29:4 (see 2ne-isa29-dust), so Moroni's 8:26 restates the same Isaiah-29 oracle. Shared element is the prophetic figure (the destroyed/dead speaking as the record comes forth), not verbatim wording. Leg: Mormon 8:16 ('it shall be brought out of the earth, and it shall shine forth out of darkness') is the same coming-forth announced.