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Ether 13:3 · Revelation 21:2

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Book of Mormon Ether 13:3
"it was the place of the New Jerusalem, which should come down out of heaven, and the holy sanctuary of the Lord"
New Testament Revelation 21:2
"And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."

Shared words: out of heaven

Both texts have a New Jerusalem descend out of heaven. 'New Jerusalem' stands at twenty verses in the corpus (recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze) — Ether 13:3, 13:4, 13:5, 13:6, 13:10; 3 Nephi 20:22, 21:23, 21:24; Moses 7:62; Articles of Faith 1:10; Revelation 3:12, 21:2; and D&C 42:9, 42:35, 42:62, 42:67, 45:66, 84:2, 84:4, 133:56 — and in the Bible only in Revelation. Variants reported, not scored: Ether has the city 'come down out of heaven,' Revelation 'coming down from God out of heaven'; Revelation adds the bride simile, which Ether does not carry; Ether attaches 'the holy sanctuary of the Lord' and locates the place on 'this land' (13:4, 13:6, 13:8), which Revelation does not. Ether 13:5 distinguishes the new city from the Jerusalem of old, a distinction Revelation 21 does not draw. The corpus gives no account of the parallel; origin outside this wiki's scope. Class (c). asserted_by wiki.

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