Moses 5:51 · Helaman 6:27

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The book of Moses gives the origin-narrative the Book of Mormon presupposes: Cain covenants with Satan and murders -- 'that I may murder and get gain' (Moses 5:31), and 'from the days of Cain, there was a secret combination' (Moses 5:51). The Book of Mormon traces its own secret combinations to that root: the Gadianton oaths from 'that same being who did plot with Cain' (Helaman 6:26-27), the Jaredite oaths 'handed down even from Cain, who was a murderer from the beginning' (Ether 8:15). The term is widespread in the Book of Mormon — plural 'secret combinations' across some dozen chapters — but only Moses 5:51 roots it explicitly 'from the days of Cain' (singular 'a secret combination' there). Disclosed 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze, since this record traces the term's corpus distribution: 'secret combinations' has a carrier outside the Book of Mormon at D&C 42:64. The book-scoped statements above are unmoved, and the Moses 5:51 rooting remains the only explicit 'from the days of Cain' one. Interpretive: the Book of Mormon appeals to Cain without quoting this narrative.