D&C 128:3 · Matthew 18:16
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Fourteen consecutive words identical as printed and under every fold, including the introducing 'that' and the closing full stop: 'that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.' 'in the mouth of two or three witnesses' stands at exactly three distinct frozen verses in the corpus: Matthew 18:16, D&C 6:28, and this verse. A second wording of the same rule, with the clause order reversed, stands at 2 Corinthians 13:1, and a third, counting the witnesses differently, at Deuteronomy 19:15. The letter uses the rule to license multiplying recorders. 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. Counts are of distinct frozen verses in the corpus, derived by search at the time of writing.