Patriarchal Blessing
A BLESSING given by Hyrum Smith, Patriarch, upon the head of
NAHUM CURTIS
Son of Moses and Molly Curtis
Born July 7, 1784 at New Salem, Frank land Co, Massachusetts
Brother Nahum, I lay my hands upon your head in the name of Jesus to seal the
blessings of the Covenant upon your head according to the desires and integrity of your
heart. For you are an Ephraim and shall be numbered with the first born from whom and
unto whom cometh the Shepherd, the stone of Israel, upon whose heads are the crowns of
the Priesthood and by whom shall the Tribes and Nations of Israel be crowned.
Therefore, I seal upon your head the blessings of the Everlasting Covenant, even the
blessings of the Priesthood, the same shall be a blessing upon the heads of your posterity
and to be continued in their lineage unto the latest generation.
And your name shall be had in honorable remembrance and perpetuated by them.
And for your sacrifices, spiritual blessings shall be multiplied upon your head, and for
the honest integrity of your heart in which there is no guile, you shall enter into the rest
and your children after you, that remains for the people of Goad and be numbered with
the sanctified and with those that shall come up upon Mount Zion with Hundred and
Forty and Four Thousand. And with the innumerable multitude that had washed their
robes and made them white in the Blood of the lamb. This is a blessing of promise upon
you and your children after you.
Therefore I seal you up unto Eternal Life, that your mind may be at rest and that
your heart may rejoice, and that joy may spring up in your heart henceforth, and that you
may go down to your grave in peace, and your works to continue. And you shall be blest
spiritually and temporarily according to your faith as it hath hither to been multiplied
upon your head. Not with standing your sufferings and your sacrifices and your name
shall be remembered, and your name and acts shall be written in the Chronicles of your
Brethren and your days and years shall be multiplied upon your head and be many.
These blessings, I seal upon your head.
Even so,
Amen.
The 144,000 High Priests found in “The Doctrine and Covenants” Sec. 77 Verse II
Revelations Chapter 7 verse 4