D&C

¹The Word and Will of the Lord concerning the Camp of Israel in their journeyings to the West:

²Let all the people of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and those who journey with them, be organized into companies, with a covenant and promise to keep all the commandments and statutes of the Lord our God.

³Let the companies be organized with captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, and captains of tens, with a president and his two counselors at their head, under the direction of the Twelve Apostles.

⁴And this shall be our covenant—that we will walk in all the ordinances of the Lord.

⁵Let each company provide themselves with all the teams, wagons, provisions, clothing, and other necessaries for the journey, that they can.

⁶When the companies are organized let them go to with their might, to prepare for those who are to tarry.

⁷Let each company, with their captains and presidents, decide how many can go next spring; then choose out a sufficient number of able-bodied and expert men, to take teams, seeds, and farming utensils, to go as pioneers to prepare for putting in spring crops.

⁸Let each company bear an equal proportion, according to the dividend of their property, in taking the poor, the widows, the fatherless, and the families of those who have gone into the army, that the cries of the widow and the fatherless come not up into the ears of the Lord against this people.

⁹Let each company prepare houses, and fields for raising grain, for those who are to remain behind this season; and this is the will of the Lord concerning his people.

¹⁰Let every man use all his influence and property to remove this people to the place where the Lord shall locate a stake of Zion.

¹¹And if ye do this with a pure heart, in all faithfulness, ye shall be blessed; you shall be blessed in your flocks, and in your herds, and in your fields, and in your houses, and in your families.

¹²Let my servants Ezra T. Benson and Erastus Snow organize a company.

¹³And let my servants Orson Pratt and Wilford Woodruff organize a company.

¹⁴Also, let my servants Amasa Lyman and George A. Smith organize a company.

¹⁵And appoint presidents, and captains of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens.

¹⁶And let my servants that have been appointed go and teach this, my will, to the saints, that they may be ready to go to a land of peace.

¹⁷Go thy way and do as I have told you, and fear not thine enemies; for they shall not have power to stop my work.

¹⁸Zion shall be redeemed in mine own due time.

¹⁹And if any man shall seek to build up himself, and seeketh not my counsel, he shall have no power, and his folly shall be made manifest.

²⁰Seek ye; and keep all your pledges one with another; and covet not that which is thy brother's.

²¹Keep yourselves from evil to take the name of the Lord in vain, for I am the Lord your God, even the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.

²²I am he who led the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; and my arm is stretched out in the last days, to save my people Israel.

²³Cease to contend one with another; cease to speak evil one of another.

²⁴Cease drunkenness; and let your words tend to edifying one another.

²⁵If thou borrowest of thy neighbor, thou shalt restore that which thou hast borrowed; and if thou canst not repay then go straightway and tell thy neighbor, lest he condemn thee.

²⁶If thou shalt find that which thy neighbor has lost, thou shalt make diligent search till thou shalt deliver it to him again.

²⁷Thou shalt be diligent in preserving what thou hast, that thou mayest be a wise steward; for it is the free gift of the Lord thy God, and thou art his steward.

²⁸If thou art merry, praise the Lord with singing, with music, with dancing, and with a prayer of praise and thanksgiving.

²⁹If thou art sorrowful, call on the Lord thy God with supplication, that your souls may be joyful.

³⁰Fear not thine enemies, for they are in mine hands and I will do my pleasure with them.

³¹My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them, even the glory of Zion; and he that will not bear chastisement is not worthy of my kingdom.

³²Let him that is ignorant learn wisdom by humbling himself and calling upon the Lord his God, that his eyes may be opened that he may see, and his ears opened that he may hear;

³³For my Spirit is sent forth into the world to enlighten the humble and contrite, and to the condemnation of the ungodly.

³⁴Thy brethren have rejected you and your testimony, even the nation that has driven you out;

³⁵And now cometh the day of their calamity, even the days of sorrow, like a woman that is taken in travail; and their sorrow shall be great unless they speedily repent, yea, very speedily.

³⁶For they killed the prophets, and them that were sent unto them; and they have shed innocent blood, which crieth from the ground against them.

³⁷Therefore, marvel not at these things, for ye are not yet pure; ye can not yet bear my glory; but ye shall behold it if ye are faithful in keeping all my words that I have given you, from the days of Adam to Abraham, from Abraham to Moses, from Moses to Jesus and his apostles, and from Jesus and his apostles to Joseph Smith, whom I did call upon by mine angels, my ministering servants, and by mine own voice out of the heavens, to bring forth my work;

³⁸Which foundation he did lay, and was faithful; and I took him to myself.

³⁹Many have marveled because of his death; but it was needful that he should seal his testimony with his blood, that he might be honored and the wicked might be condemned.

⁴⁰Have I not delivered you from your enemies, only in that I have left a witness of my name?

⁴¹Now, therefore, hearken, O ye people of my church; and ye elders listen together; you have received my kingdom.

⁴²Be diligent in keeping all my commandments, lest judgments come upon you, and your faith fail you, and your enemies triumph over you. So no more at present. Amen and Amen.