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D&C 119:1 · Malachi 3:10

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 119:1
"Verily, thus saith the Lord, I require all their surplus property to be put into the hands of the bishop of my church in Zion,"
Old Testament Malachi 3:10
"Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."

Interpretive, hedged. Both direct a tithe into a named institutional destination for the upkeep of a house. Against reading them as one commandment: the units differ (surplus property, then one-tenth of interest, against 'all the tithes'), the destinations are differently named (a bishop's hands against a storehouse), the older verse attaches a promise the newer has no counterpart for, and the newer attaches a condition the older lacks - that without the law the land 'shall not be a land of Zion unto you' (D&C 119:6). No four-word run stands verbatim in both. 'tithes into the storehouse' stands at exactly two distinct frozen verses in the corpus, Malachi 3:10 and 3 Nephi 24:10, neither in this section. That the two commandments are of a kind is visible; that this one restates that one is offered to weigh, not asserted.

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