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D&C 5:13 · 2 Nephi 27:12

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 5:13
"I will give them power that they may behold and view these things as they are;"
Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 27:12
"the eyes of none shall behold it save it be that three witnesses shall behold it, by the power of God, besides him to whom the book shall be delivered; and they shall testify to the truth of the book and the things therein."

WEIGH THIS. The Book of Mormon's prophecy of its own coming forth fixes the same number and the same means as the revelation: three besides the one who has the book (D&C 5:11), power to behold (D&C 5:13), a testimony sent forth (D&C 5:15). The correspondence is point for point. But the wording is not shared — the prophecy says 'three witnesses shall behold it, by the power of God', the revelation 'I will give them power that they may behold and view these things as they are' — and the revelation does not cite the prophecy. That the one enacts the other, rather than independently stating the same number, is offered to weigh.

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