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D&C 105:31 · Song of Solomon 6:10

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 105:31
"that it may become fair as the sun, and clear as the moon, and that her banners may be terrible unto all nations;"
Old Testament Song of Solomon 6:10
"Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?"

Shared words: as the sun, and

Divergences: the two luminaries are swapped - 'fair as the sun, and clear as the moon' against 'fair as the moon, clear as the sun' - and the simile's ground is inverted: in the song a woman is like an army with banners, in the revelation an actual army's banners are what is to be terrible. The swap is not unique here: D&C 5:14 carries the same swap with the song's closing clause intact, and D&C 109:73 matches the song exactly; both disclosed, not paired. 'terrible as an army with banners' stands at four distinct frozen verses in the corpus: Song of Solomon 6:4, 6:10, D&C 5:14, and D&C 109:73 - not this verse, which recasts the clause rather than reproducing it.

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