D&C 128:24 · Malachi 3:3
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Twenty-one consecutive words match as printed; counted case-insensitively - the prophecy prints the divine name 'LORD' where the letter has 'Lord' - the shared run is twenty-six words, and that capitalisation is the sole divergence inside it: 'and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.' This verse then does with the prophecy what the letter does throughout - turns it into an instruction for its readers: 'let us, therefore, as a church and a people, and as Latter-day Saints, offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness'. D&C 127 and D&C 128 frame themselves as letters in a human first person, not as divine addresses; the letter-writer is not named in the verse text.