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THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

SECTION 27

8 Which John I have sent unto you, my servants, Joseph Smith, Jun., and Oliver Cowdery, to ordain you unto the first ^apriesthood which you have received, that you might be called and ^bordained even as ^cAaron;

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8a	D&C 13: 1. 1 Upon you my fellow servants, in the name of Messiah I ^aconfer the ^bPriesthood of Aaron, which holds the ^ckeys of the ministering of ^dangels, and of the gospel of ^erepentance, and of ^fbaptism by immersion for the remission of sins; and this shall never be taken again from the earth, until the sons of ^gLevi do offer again an offering unto the Lord in ^hrighteousness. TG Priesthood, Aaronic.
b	TG Authority. TG Priesthood, Ordination.
c	Ex. 28: 1 (1-3, 41). 1 And take thou unto thee ^aAaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the ^bpriest’s ^coffice, even Aaron, ^dNadab and Abihu, Eleazar and ^eIthamar, Aaron’s ^fsons. D&C 107: 13. 13 The second priesthood is called the Priesthood of ^aAaron, because it was conferred upon Aaron and his seed, throughout all their generations.