在教儀中使用右手,顯然是很早以前神所指示的,在進行宣誓、做見證或接受義務時,習慣上都使用右手。只用單手執行的神聖教儀中,都優先選擇用右手而不用左手。 USE OF RIGHT HAND IN ORDINANCES. The custom, evidently by divine direction, from the very earliest time, has been to associate the right hand with the taking of oaths, and in witnessing or acknowledging obligations. The right hand has been used, in preference to the left hand, in officiating in sacred ordinances where only one hand is used. 雅各祝福他的兩位孫子以法蓮和瑪拿西,那時他把手「故意那樣地」放在孩子們頭上。這節經文是關於祝福時,右手優於左手的最早的經文。(創48:13-14) The earliest reference we have to the superiority of the right hand over the left, in blessing, is found in the blessing of Jacob to his two grandsons, Ephraim and Manasseh, when he placed his hand "wittingly" upon the heads of the boys.