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Mormon 5:23 · 3 Nephi 26:3

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Book of Mormon Mormon 5:23
"at his great command the earth shall be rolled together as a scroll"
Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 26:3
"the earth should be wrapt together as a scroll"

Shared words: together as a scroll

'together as a scroll' occurs 4x in the corpus since the Old-Testament freeze: 3 Ne 26:3, Mormon 5:23, Mormon 9:2, and Isaiah 34:4 (there of the heavens, not the earth). A textual variant here: Mormon (5:23) and Moroni (Mormon 9:2) both read 'rolled together as a scroll' — as does Isaiah 34:4 — where 3 Ne 26:3 reads 'wrapt together as a scroll' -- the same eschatological image, one word differs (reported as fact; what it means is not pressed). The companion pair Mormon 9:2 <-> 3 Ne 26:3 (registered separately as morm-cov-scroll-elements) also carries the 'melt with fervent heat' clause, which 5:23 lacks. Here the scroll image is the backdrop of Mormon's warning to the Gentiles (5:22-24). Cross-linked to messiah.md.