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D&C 38:4 · Moses 7:69

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 38:4
"I am the same which have taken the Zion of Enoch into mine own bosom"
Pearl of Great Price Moses 7:69
"And Enoch and all his people walked with God, and he dwelt in the midst of Zion; and it came to pass that Zion was not, for God received it up into his own bosom; and from thence went forth the saying, Zion is Fled."

The revelation states in five words what the older text narrates in a verse; the shared elements are the two proper terms and the receiving-into-the-bosom. Divergences: agency and voice - the revelation speaks in the first person where the vision reports in the third; the vision supplies the saying that followed, 'Zion is Fled', which the revelation has no counterpart for. 'the Zion of Enoch' stands at exactly one distinct frozen verse in the corpus, and 'Zion is fled' at exactly one. Registered as allusion: no four-word run stands verbatim in both.

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