3 ^aWithout father, without mother, without descent, having neither ^bbeginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a ^cpriest continually.

  3 It was ^aconferred upon me from the fathers; it came down from the fathers, from the beginning of time, yea, even from the beginning, or before the foundation of the earth, down to the present time, even the right of the ^bfirstborn, or the first man, who is ^cAdam, or first father, through the fathers unto me.