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THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
SECTION 68
  18 No man has a legal right to this office, to hold the keys of this priesthood, except he be a aliteral descendant and the firstborn of Aaron.

Footnotes
18a
Ex. 40: 15 (12-15)
  15 And thou shalt aanoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the bpriest’s office: for their canointing shall surely be dan eeverlasting fpriesthood throughout their ggenerations.
D&C 84: 18 (18, 30)
  18 And the Lord confirmed a apriesthood also upon bAaron and his cseed, throughout all their generations, which priesthood also continueth and dabideth forever with the priesthood which is after the holiest order of God.
D&C 107: 16 (13-16, 70-76)
  16 No man has a legal right to this office, to hold the keys of this priesthood, except he be a aliteral descendant of bAaron.