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D&C 109:73 · Song of Solomon 6:10

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 109:73
"fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners"
Old Testament Song of Solomon 6:10
"fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners"

Shared words: fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners

Fourteen consecutive words are identical as printed; counted with the two verses' divergent trailing marks set aside - the prayer closes the clause with a semicolon, the older passage with a question mark - the shared run is fifteen words, 'fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners'. What differs is the grammatical frame: the older passage asks a question about a woman, the prayer makes a petition about a church. 'terrible as an army with banners' stands at exactly four distinct frozen verses in the corpus: Song of Solomon 6:4, Song of Solomon 6:10, D&C 5:14, and this verse - and both Doctrine and Covenants carriers attach the figure to a church. Counts are of distinct frozen verses in the corpus, derived by search at the time of writing.

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