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Alma 34:36 Helaman 9:31-34 (where the symbolic use and the literal use combine, as the blood on garments testify to the sins committed) 3 Nephi 19:25 (literal in a different way, transfiguration) compare with Moroni 7: the sons of God,…we shall be like him… purified even as he is pure” 3 Nephi 27:19 “washed their garments in my blood” 4 Nephi 24 (pride and costly apparel) Mormon 9:34, garments and the priestly obligation to testify to “rid our garments of the blood of our brethren”) Ether 12:37 “thy garments shall be made clean…sitting down in the place which I have prepared in the mansions of my Father” Ether 12:38, “my garments are not spotted with your blood” Moroni 10:31, “put on thy beautiful garments, O daughter of Zion” Close reading and careful contextualization (Nibley provides several examples of Semitic and Egyptian cultural language convention that provide similar enlightenment) can change the harvest from the same seeds in unpredictable ways. We can’t see the difference it might make until we try. Settling on obvious first impressions and seeking out the most telling contextualization is the difference between Inspector Lestrade and and Sherlock Holmes.

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