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D&C 136:3 · Deuteronomy 1:15

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 136:3
"Let the companies be organized with captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, and captains of tens"
Old Testament Deuteronomy 1:15
"captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes."

Shared words: fifties, and captains

The same descending triad of hundreds, fifties, and tens, with the same noun. 'captains of fifties' stands at exactly one distinct frozen verse in the corpus, this one, because the older passages read 'captains over fifties' at Deuteronomy 1:15 or 'rulers of fifties' at Exodus 18:21 and Exodus 18:25. Two divergences: the preposition, 'of' for 'over', and the top of the scale - the older passage begins at thousands, this one at hundreds, and puts a president with two counselors above the captains instead. Counts are of distinct frozen verses in the corpus, derived by search at the time of writing.

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