Words of Mormon 1:7 · 1 Nephi 9:5
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The maker and the editor of the small plates each account for his act with 'a wise purpose', and each disclaims knowing it (1 Ne 9:5 'which purpose I know not'; WoM 1:7 'I do not know all things'). The wise-purpose family occurs at seven verses in the record: three concern this same set of small plates — 1 Nephi 9:5, 1 Nephi 19:3, Words of Mormon 1:7 — and the remaining four are Alma's charge to Helaman about a DIFFERENT record, the plates of Nephi (Alma 37:2 'keep a record … upon the plates of Nephi … for a wise purpose'; also 37:12, 37:14, 37:18). The shared small-plates 'wise purpose', disclaimed by its keeper, is what pairs these two ends.