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Moroni 10:27 · Mormon 8:26

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Book of Mormon Moroni 10:27
"like as one crying from the dead, yea, even as one speaking out of the dust"
Book of Mormon Mormon 8:26
"it shall come even as if one should speak from the dead"

Shared words: from the dead

The same writer (Moroni) closes with the speak-from-the-dead / out-of-the-dust figure at the end of both books he wrote: Moroni 10:27 ('like as one crying from the dead, yea, even as one speaking out of the dust', the Lord's own description of Moroni's written words) and Mormon 8:26 ('even as if one should speak from the dead'). The exact clause 'even as if one should speak from the dead' is unique to Mormon 8:26 corpus-wide (verified — the only 'speak from the dead' hit). The record-idiom of a writer speaking/crying 'from the dead' occurs at 2 Nephi 27:13 ('the words of the faithful should speak as if it were from the dead'), Mormon 8:26, Mormon 9:30 ('as though I spake from the dead'), and now Moroni 10:27 — a fourth member. 'from the dust' occurs at 11 verses in the record (2 Ne 1:14, 1:21, 1:23; 2 Ne 3:19, 3:20; 2 Ne 8:25; 2 Ne 33:13; 3 Ne 20:37; Mormon 8:23; Ether 8:24; Moroni 10:31); corpus-wide the frozen scriptures add Isaiah 52:2, Moses 3:7, and Abraham 5:7 (fourteen in all); note that 10:27 itself reads 'out of the dust', not 'from the dust,' so it is not in that 11. No verse-pair collision with the live records morm-cfs-speak-dead (Mormon 8:26 to 2 Ne 26:16) or morm-cfs-isaiah-dust (Mormon 8:23 to Isaiah 29:4); this record's pair is Moroni 10:27 to Mormon 8:26.