- And again, verily I say unto you my friends, a commandment I give unto you that you shall commence a work of laying out and preparing a beginning and foundation of the city of the stake of Zion, here in the land of Kirtland, beginning at my house. And behold, it must be done according to the pattern which I have given unto you. And let the first lot on the south be consecrated unto me for the building of a house for the presidency, for the work of the presidency in obtaining revelations, and for the work of the ministry of the presidency in all things pertaining to the church and kingdom.
- Verily I say unto you that it shall be built fifty-five by sixty-five feet, in the width thereof and in the length thereof, in the inner court. And there shall be a lower court and a higher court, according to the pattern which shall be given unto you hereafter. And it shall be dedicated unto the Lord from the foundation thereof, according to the Order of the Priesthood, according to the pattern which shall be given unto you hereafter. And it shall be wholly dedicated unto the Lord for the work of the presidency, and you shall not suffer any unclean thing to come into it. And my glory shall be there, and my presence shall be there, but if there shall come into it any unclean thing, my glory shall not be there, and my presence shall not come into it.
- And again, verily I say unto you, the second lot on the south shall be dedicated unto me for the building of a house unto me, for the work of the printing of the translation of my scriptures, and all things whatever I shall command you. And it shall be fifty-five by sixty-five feet, in the width thereof and in the length thereof, in the inner court. And there shall be a lower and a higher court. And this house shall be wholly dedicated unto the Lord from the foundation thereof for the work of the printing in all things whatever I shall command you, to be holy and undefiled, according to the pattern in all things as it shall be given unto you.
- And on the third lot shall my servant Hyrum receive his inheritance. And on the first and second lots on the north shall my servants Reynolds and Jared receive their inheritance, that they may do the work which I have appointed unto them, to be a committee to build my houses according to the commandment which I the Lord God have given unto you. And now I give unto you no more at this time. Amen.
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A revelation received at Kirtland, Ohio, 2 August 1833, through Joseph Smith Jr.