Moroni 10:2 · Ether 4:5
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Moroni, the record's final hand, performs a first-person sealing-up at the close of BOTH records he finished: the Jaredite abridgment (Ether 4:5, 'I have sealed up the interpreters,' where the sealed vision and its two interpreter-stones are hidden) and his own book (Moroni 10:2, 'I seal up these records'). The verb 'seal up' (with 'sealed up', 'seal them up') is a common corpus idiom for hiding a record away — it stands at 12 verses of the record (1 Ne 14:26; 2 Ne 26:17, 27:8, 27:22, 30:3; Ether 3:22, 3:23, 3:27, 3:28, 4:5, 5:1; Moroni 10:2) and 25 verses corpus-wide (recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze: the record's twelve plus Deuteronomy 32:34, Job 14:17, Daniel 9:24, Revelation 10:4, and nine D&C verses — 1:9, 68:12, 77:8, 88:84, 109:38, 109:46, 124:124, 131:5, 133:72; the Book of Mormon title page's header text carries a further non-verse instance) — so the distinctiveness here is authorial/structural (same writer, both his record-closings), not lexical rarity. The objects differ (the interpreters / sealed vision at Ether 4:5 vs. 'these records' at Moroni 10:2); the act and the hand are the same. Prophetic frame, in-note only (never an endpoint): 2 Nephi 27:22, 'then shalt thou seal up the book again, and hide it up unto me' — the latter-day sealing Nephi foretold, of which Moroni's ancient sealings are the near end.