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D&C 4:4 · John 4:35

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 4:4
"For behold the field is white already to harvest; and lo, he that thrusteth in his sickle with his might, the same layeth up in store that he perisheth not, but bringeth salvation to his soul;"
New Testament John 4:35
"Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest."

Shared words: white already to harvest

Divergence: singular 'the field is' for the plural 'the fields; for they are'. The sickle half of the revelation's sentence has no counterpart in the Johannine verse; in the frozen corpus 'thrust in his sickle' stands only in D&C 6:3-4, 11:3-4, 12:3-4, 14:3-4 and at Revelation 14:16 and 14:19, where the reaper is an angel and the reaping is judgment — disclosed, not paired. 'the field is white already to harvest' stands at seven frozen verses: D&C 4:4, 6:3, 11:3, 12:3, 14:3, 33:3, 33:7.

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