Mormon 8:27 · 3 Nephi 9:9
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Moroni's latter-day re-aim of the secret-combination warning past the record's own end. The near-end carries the 7th plural-locus of 'secret combinations' in the corpus, the last before the Jaredite narrative (2 Nephi 9:9; 2 Nephi 26:22; Alma 37:30; Alma 37:31; Helaman 3:23; 3 Nephi 4:29; Mormon 8:27; Ether adds six more — Ether 8:19, 8:22, 9:1, 13:18, 14:8, 14:10 — thirteen in the record and fourteen in the corpus, D&C 42:64 the one carrier outside the record; recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze. The near-end's ordinal position is a record-internal ordering fact and is untouched). Far-end 3 Nephi 9:9 chosen over Helaman 6:26 on verbal contact: two shared threads — (i) 'secret… combinations' as the stated cause (8:27 'because of secret combinations', 9:9 'because of their secret murders and combinations'), and (ii) the blood-of-the-saints cry ('the blood of saints shall cry unto the Lord' / 'that the blood of the prophets and the saints should not come up unto me any more against them'); Helaman 6:26 shares only 'secret'. Chain disclosed: Mormon 8:27 -> 3 Nephi 9:9 (3ne-sc-jacobugath-secret-murders, paired w/ Helaman 6:38, 'secret murders and combinations') -> the Helaman 6:26-30 genealogy -> the root 2 Nephi 9:9. The tightest verbal partner overall is that root, 2 Nephi 9:9, which alone fuses BOTH halves of Mormon 8:27 — 'secret combinations of murder and all manner of secret works of darkness' (co-occurrence of 'secret combinations' + 'works of darkness' at only 2 Nephi 9:9, 2 Nephi 26:22, Mormon 8:27). Related Moroni-side leg: Mormon 8:40 ('why do ye build up your secret abominations to get gain'; 'the blood of their fathers and their husbands to cry unto the Lord from the ground, for vengeance'). The Jaredite origin of the combinations: the origin chain is registered at eth-sc-devils-charter-origin (Ether 8:25 <-> 2 Nephi 9:9), eth-sc-embargo-third (8:20 <-> Alma 37:27), eth-sc-destruction-confirmed (8:21 <-> Omni 1:22), and eth-sc-record-transmitted-evil (8:9 <-> Alma 37:29), all on secret-combinations.md.