Mormon 1:18 · 3 Nephi 1:27
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Near-identical clause structure at the order's first plague-era appearance and its last: [(the/these) Gadianton robbers] + [who + locative] + [did infest the land]. 3 Nephi 1:27 is the robbers' first appearance as an infesting force ('the Gadianton robbers, who dwelt upon the mountains, who did infest the land'); Mormon 1:18 reopens the final collapse with the same construction ('these Gadianton robbers, who were among the Lamanites, did infest the land') -- the locative updated (mountains -> among the Lamanites), the clause otherwise parallel. Distribution: 'infest' stands at five corpus verses -- Mosiah 18:4 and Alma 2:37 are wild-beast uses, Helaman 11:31 has robbers 'who infested the mountains and the wilderness' (same subject, different object) -- so the exact 'did infest the land' clause with Gadianton-robber subject is confined to these two verses. Companion to morm-sc-robbers-collapse (Mormon 1:18 <-> 4 Nephi 1:42, interpretive -- the institutional-continuity reading via the anaphoric 'these'), whose note already disclosed 3 Nephi 1:27 as the closer verbal echo; this record registers that echo as the textual leg. Distinct verse-pair; Mormon 1:18's slippery-treasures half is morm-samuel-slippery-fulfilled (samuel-the-lamanite.md).