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At every Temple, which thou shalt build unto the Lord thy God, by His Commandment, shalt thou make a fountain for the baptism of the living for the dead.
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¶ And for these shall you be baptized:
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Every one of you, according to your several rights, and in your several orders, according to consanguinity, sex, and primogeniture, shall be baptized for any deceased husband, wife, or posterity; or any progenitor, to the third and fourth generation; or any brother, or sister, whom he in faith believes has received the Gospel in the Spirit.
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¶ Thou shalt also be baptized for any relative, within the fourth degree of consanguinity;
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For any one betrothed to thee in marriage; for thy foster father, mother, brother, sister, or child, whom I shall give to thee by tongue, dream, vision, spirit ministering in fire, word of angel, or by my own voice.
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And whensoever I will that any of my faithful servants of the Aaronic Priesthood be baptized for any other, I will send my angels to signify it unto them.
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But unto my servants of the Melchizedek Priesthood, I will speak by my own voice, or minister in fire.
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¶ But no man or woman among you shall be baptized for the dead, who is not a member of some family, according to the order of the Church of the Firstborn of God;
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Or who is under condemnation of any word of this Law;
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Or who withholdeth anything whatsoever from the treasury of the House of the Lord your God.
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¶ At every Temple which ye shall build unto the Lord your God, shall High Priests be set apart, and sanctified by anointing with holy oil, and the hands of Apostles and Prophets, to baptize for the dead; for no other shall administer this sacrament.
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¶ Recorders, also, shall be set apart by the laying on of hands of High Priests, to record baptisms for the dead; who shall be eyewitnesses to the baptisms, and shall record according to the seeing of their eyes.
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¶ And other witnesses, who see with their eyes, shall sign the records of baptisms, that everyone may be proved by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
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But there shall be one record before the king, unto which all records of baptisms for the dead shall be brought, and all written together in perpetual archives; that what you record on earth, may also be recorded in heaven.
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At every Temple also shall ye perpetuate the record of such as are there baptized.