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D&C 101:46 · Isaiah 5:2

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 101:46
"and planted the olive trees, and built a hedge round about, and set watchmen, and began to build a tower."
Old Testament Isaiah 5:2
"And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein"

Interpretive, hedged. The shared run is three words ('built a tower'), which the corpus carries at five distinct frozen verses in the corpus: Isaiah 5:2, 2 Nephi 15:2, Matthew 21:33, Mark 12:1, and Mosiah 11:12, the last an unrelated watchtower. The three passages do different work: the song's vineyard yields wild grapes and is abandoned, the gospel parable's tenants murder the owner's son, and the revelation's servants argue the tower is unnecessary and fall asleep. The revelation adds an item none of the others has, the twelve olive trees (D&C 101:44). That the imagery is shared stock is textual; that the revelation reworks either specific passage is offered to weigh, not asserted.

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