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D&C 2:2 · Malachi 4:6

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 2:2
"And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers."
Old Testament Malachi 4:6
"And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."

Shared words: to their fathers

Divergence here exceeds agreement. Malachi's verse is symmetrical — fathers turned to children, children to fathers; the section's is not: its first clause plants promises in the children's hearts, and only its second clause turns hearts, in one direction. Shared spine: 'And he shall… the hearts of the children… to their fathers'. Malachi's closing threat has no counterpart; the section supplies a differently worded consequence at D&C 2:3. The turn-the-heart clause stands at three frozen verses — Malachi 4:6, 3 Nephi 25:6, D&C 128:17 — and the section's rewording matches none of them.