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D&C 20:60 · Moroni 3:4

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 20:60
"Every elder, priest, teacher, or deacon is to be ordained according to the gifts and callings of God unto him; and he is to be ordained by the power of the Holy Ghost, which is in the one who ordains him."
Book of Mormon Moroni 3:4
"And after this manner did they ordain priests and teachers, according to the gifts and callings of God unto men; and they ordained them by the power of the Holy Ghost, which was in them."

Shared words: according to the gifts and callings of God unto

Divergences: 'unto him' for 'unto men'; the revelation locates the power in the single ordainer, Moroni in the ordaining group; four offices against two. 'the gifts and callings of God' stands at three distinct frozen verses in the corpus: these two and D&C 20:27, where the sense is belief in the gifts rather than ordination by them.

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