4 Nephi 1:19 · 3 Nephi 1:3
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The record-keeping succession formula — the kept-the-record-in-his-stead family, in its kept/keep and record/records forms — occurs at exactly FOUR loci corpus-wide: 3 Nephi 1:3 (the disciple Nephi receives from Nephi son of Helaman -- the formula's first record-keeping use), then the whole 4 Nephi relay -- 1:19 (Nephi III dies, 'his son Amos kept it in his stead'), 1:21 ('his son Amos kept the record in his stead'), 1:47 ('his brother, Ammaron, did keep the record in his stead'). The bare phrase 'in his stead' stands at 31 verses in the record; the other 27 (beyond the four record-keeping legs) are royal or judicial succession (e.g. Jacob 1:11's throne-names context, Mosiah 10:6, Alma 52:3, Helaman 6:15, and all 16 Ether hits), never record-keeping -- corpus-wide the phrase is far more common (112 verses, recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze — the bulk royal succession in the frozen Kings and Chronicles, plus 8 in the Doctrine and Covenants at 28:7, 35:18, 42:10, 43:4, 102:11, 104:77, 107:11, 124:132, every one an office succession and none record-keeping) -- so the kept-record collocation is the keeper-line's own marker, spanning the 3 Nephi/4 Nephi book seam and covering every transfer from the disciple to Ammaron. Anchored 4 Nephi 1:19 (the relay's first in-book link) <-> 3 Nephi 1:3 (the formula's origin); 1:21 and 1:47 also appear in the note. DISTINCT verse-pair from 4ne-keeper-relay (4 Nephi 1:19 <-> 3 Nephi 5:11, interpretive -- the office-continuity reading); this record supplies the relay's verbatim textual legs. Disambiguation: Jacob 1:11's 'second Nephi, third Nephi' are royal throne-names, unrelated to this keeper line.