Moroni

Chapter 3

The ordination of priests and teachers

Moroni records the manner in which the disciples ordained priests and teachers. After praying to the Father in the name of Christ, they laid their hands upon them and said specific words conferring the office. This ordination was done by the power of the Holy Ghost, following the pattern Christ Himself had established among them.

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¹The manner which the disciples, who were called the elders of the church, ordained priests and teachers—

²After they had prayed unto the Father in the name of Christ, they laid their hands upon them, and said:

³In the name of Jesus Christ I ordain you to be a priest (or if he be a teacher, I ordain you to be a teacher) to preach repentance and remission of sins through Jesus Christ, by the endurance of faith on his name to the end. Amen.

⁴And after this manner did they ordain priests and teachers, according to the gifts and callings of God unto men; and they ordained them by the power of the Holy Ghost, which was in them.

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