Sacred Texts: Mormons

Doctrine and Convenants: 107. Revelation on priesthood, given through Joseph Smith, Kirtland, Ohio, dated March 28, 1835.

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This is a canonical scriptural text from the Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (section 107), a collection of revelations received primarily by Joseph Smith that functions as governing doctrine for the LDS Church. The passage lays out the Church's two-tiered priesthood structure: the higher Melchizedek Priesthood, which holds authority over all spiritual matters and grants access to divine presence, and the lesser Aaronic (Levitical) Priesthood, which governs outward ordinances such as baptism. It then defines the governing quorums — the First Presidency (three presiding high priests), the Twelve Apostles, and the Seventy — specifying that each quorum holds equal authority to the others and that all decisions within them must be unanimous to be valid. A distinctive claim is the genealogical tracing of priesthood authority from Adam through Noah, with specific ages of ordination given for each patriarch, presenting this lineage as historical fact revealed through prophecy and recorded in a "book of Enoch." The text also identifies Adam as the archangel Michael and frames him as an eternal prince over his posterity, a theological position uncommon in other Christian traditions. Overall, the passage reads as institutional law and sacred history combined, asserting that the Church's hierarchical structure replicates a divinely ordained order stretching back to the beginning of human history.

Doctrine and Convenants: 107. Revelation on priesthood, given through Joseph Smith, Kirtland, Ohio, dated March 28, 1835.

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