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Moroni 10:34 · Jacob 6:13

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Book of Mormon Moroni 10:34
"to meet you before the pleasing bar of the great Jehovah, the Eternal Judge of both quick and dead. Amen."
Book of Mormon Jacob 6:13
"Finally, I bid you farewell, until I shall meet you before the pleasing bar of God, which bar striketh the wicked with awful dread and fear. Amen."

Shared words: meet you before the pleasing bar of

The farewell that closes the record -- shared-phrasing / textual. Distinctive shared contiguous run at both ends: 'meet you before the pleasing bar of' -- Moroni 10:34 'to meet you before the pleasing bar of the great Jehovah, the Eternal Judge of both quick and dead. Amen.'; Jacob 6:13 'until I shall meet you before the pleasing bar of God, which bar striketh the wicked with awful dread and fear. Amen.' 'pleasing bar' stands at EXACTLY 2 corpus verses, these two (Jacob 6:13, Moroni 10:34), and does not occur anywhere else in the frozen corpus. The farewell convention -- 'I bid you farewell' / 'I bid unto all, farewell', then the pleasing-bar meeting, then 'Amen.' at both ends -- closes Jacob's sermon and, at Moroni 10:34, the whole record. Jacob 6:13 is already an endpoint in jac-jacob-bar (Jacob 6:13 <-> 2 Nephi 33:11, jacob-lehison.md), which pairs Jacob's farewell with NEPHI's ('you and I shall stand face to face before his bar'). This record is a DISTINCT verse-pair (Moroni 10:34 <-> Jacob 6:13 -- no collision) and is the tighter of the two: it joins the only two verses carrying the exact 'pleasing bar' phrase, whereas jac-jacob-bar joins Jacob to Nephi's non-exact 'before his bar'. The two capture different observations (the two brothers' shared farewell vs. the corpus-closing farewell reusing Jacob's coined phrase); not a duplicate. Also in-note: (a) 2 Nephi 33:11 'you and I shall stand face to face before his bar' -- Nephi's farewell, the bar-FAMILY leg, not the exact phrase (already registered as jac-jacob-bar); (b) Moroni 10:27 'ye shall see me at the bar of God' -- Moroni's own earlier bar-verse, same chapter; (c) Jacob 6:9 'before the bar of God' -- the earlier bar within Jacob's OWN sermon; (d) Ether 12:38 'until we shall meet before the judgment-seat of Christ' -- Moroni's OTHER farewell-at-the-judgment, already on narrative-voice.md section 9 (eth-nv-garments-not-spotted). Moroni 10:34 is the final verse of Moroni 10, the last chapter of the book of Moroni and of the whole Book of Mormon, so its 'Amen' is the corpus's last word. Jacob 6:13, by contrast, ends Jacob's SERMON, not the book: Jacob 7 (the Sherem narrative) follows, and the book of Jacob ends at Jacob 7:27 ('Brethren, adieu.'). So the 'Amen' the two verses share is a farewell-formula 'Amen,' NOT a shared book-terminal position. Both quotes are verbatim single-verse substrings.

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