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Mormon 9:22 · 3 Nephi 28:7

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Book of Mormon Mormon 9:22
"thus said Jesus Christ, the Son of God, unto his disciples who should tarry, yea, and also to all his disciples, in the hearing of the multitude"
Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 28:7
"ye shall never taste of death; but ye shall live to behold all the doings of the Father unto the children of men"

The IN-CORPUS leg ONLY of the Mormon 9:22-24 commission block (the commission wording itself is displayed beside frozen Mark 16 as a variant comparison -- see the page's Mark-16 section; Mark has been a legal register endpoint since its retirement from the comparanda class at the NT freeze, so that comparison stands unregistered as an editorial choice, not because law forbids the endpoint). This record anchors on the AUDIENCE Moroni names: the commission is spoken 'unto his disciples who should tarry' (Mormon 9:22), a back-reference to the three Nephite disciples whom the risen Lord granted, at 3 Nephi 28:7, that 'ye shall never taste of death; but ye shall live to behold all the doings of the Father unto the children of men' -- the never-taste-death grant IS the tarrying. This is a paraphrase (named-referent allusion), grounded on referent-identity, not on a verbatim string: 3 Nephi 28:7 does NOT contain the word 'tarry'. Word distribution: the exact phrase 'who should tarry' occurs at Mormon 9:22, 4 Nephi 1:14 ('the three who should tarry'), and 4 Nephi 1:37 ('the three disciples of Jesus who should tarry'); the three-Nephites narrative's own 'tarry' first appears at 3 Nephi 28:12 ('the three who were to tarry' -- note the variant 'were to' vs 'should'); the tarrying disciples are also referenced at 4 Nephi 1:30 and Mormon 8:10. The far-end 3 Nephi 28:7 is chosen because 28:7 is the ORIGIN of the promise that made them tarry (28:12 merely records the physical departure). The Great-Commission wording ('Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature') is NOT in 3 Nephi 28 -- this record's quote deliberately stops before it; within the record that block stands only at Mormon 9:22-24; corpus-wide the commission wording 'preach the gospel to every creature' stands three further times (recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze) — Mark 16:15-18 (frozen NT canon), displayed on the page as a variant comparison, and D&C 68:8 and 80:1, the first an explicit re-issue of the commission, 'Go ye into all the world, preach the gospel to every creature'. Because the far-end (28:7) does not itself contain the anchor word 'tarry', this record's textual footing is the referent-identity, not a shared string; 4 Nephi 1:14 or 1:37 carry 'who should tarry' verbatim.

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