Moroni 9:12 · Mormon 5:17

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The terminus of the delightsome-reversal ARC. Arc across the register: 2 Ne 5:21 (the brethren 'white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome' BEFORE the curse) -> 4 Ne 1:10 (the whole converted people 'became an exceedingly fair and delightsome people', the height) -> Mormon 5:17 (the elegy: 'They were once a delightsome people, and they had Christ for their shepherd') -> Moroni 9:12 (Mormon's epistle parenthesis: 'they were a civil and a delightsome people'). Verse-pair: Moroni 9:12 <-> Mormon 5:17. 9:12 is literally parenthesized in the corpus and is a PARENTHETICAL interjection in Mormon's epistle, dropped between 9:11 ('how can a people like this, that are without civilization—') and 9:13 ('But O my son, how can a people like this, whose delight is in so much abomination—'). Family disclosure / no collision: morm-cov-delightsome-reversal = Mormon 5:17 <-> 4 Ne 1:10 (covenant-of-israel.md) shares my far-end verse (Mormon 5:17) but has a DIFFERENT far end (4 Ne 1:10); 4ne-ll-fair-delightsome = 4 Ne 1:10 <-> 2 Ne 5:21 (this page) is a different verse-pair. Same 'delightsome' family, three distinct pairs, no collision. DISTRIBUTION: 'delightsome' = 8 record verses (2 Ne 5:21; 2 Ne 30:6; 2 Ne 30:7; 3 Ne 24:12 [a delightsome LAND, quoting Malachi]; 4 Ne 1:10; Mormon 5:17; Moroni 9:12; WoM 1:8) and nine corpus-wide -- Malachi 3:12, frozen OT canon, the verse 3 Ne 24:12 quotes, is the ninth; exact 'delightsome people' = 6 (2 Ne 30:6; 2 Ne 30:7; 4 Ne 1:10; Mormon 5:17; Moroni 9:12; WoM 1:8). 'delightsome people' is common corpus vocabulary, so the binding contact is the reversal-ARC (a people once delightsome who fell), NOT the phrase -- hence thematic/interpretive, not shared-phrasing. Report ONLY the text's own stated causes -- 9:12's own 'only a few years' frame; 9:23 'if they perish it will be like unto the Jaredites, because of the wilfulness of their hearts, seeking for blood and revenge'; and, at most, the fact that the epistle reports the war's brutality. NO racial or modern gloss; NO interpretive expansion of the curse mechanism; nothing of the atrocity content of 9:7-10 beyond that the epistle records the war's brutality.