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Mormon 8:11 · 3 Nephi 28:7

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Book of Mormon Mormon 8:11
"my father and I have seen them, and they have ministered unto us"
Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 28:7
"ye shall live to behold all the doings of the Father unto the children of men"

The declared arc closed. Four hundred years after Christ, Moroni records 'my father and I have seen them, and they have ministered unto us' (Mormon 8:11) — the corpus's last sighting of the three, holding the promise that they would 'live to behold all the doings of the Father unto the children of men, even until all things shall be fulfilled' (3 Nephi 28:7). Context legs (note only): the disciples were taken from the people during Mormon's youth — Mormon 1:13 'the Lord did take away his beloved disciples', 1:16 'the beloved disciples were taken away out of the land, because of their iniquity'; Mormon 8:10 specifies of 'the disciples of Jesus, who did tarry in the land until the wickedness of the people was so great that the Lord would not suffer them to remain with the people'; and 4 Nephi 1:14 marks their continuation at a hundred years. Interpretive tier: the pairing rests on the shared identity of the three plus the promise, not a shared phrase. Distinct verse-pair from 4ne-three-tarry-continue (same far end, different near end). A stronger near-verbatim textual partner exists at 3 Nephi 28:26 ('I have seen them, and they have ministered unto me') — Mormon's own witness that 8:11 restates with Moroni added.

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