{"collection":"mor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/mor/dc/dc094.htm","path":"mor/dc/dc094.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/mor/dc/dc094.htm","text":"Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints\n94:1 And again, verily I say unto you, my friends, a commandment I give unto you, that ye 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.\n94:2 And behold, it must be done according to the pattern which I have given unto you.\n94:3 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.\n94:4 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.\n94:5 And there shall be a lower court and a higher court, according to the pattern which shall be given unto you hereafter.\n94:6 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.\n94:7 And it shall be wholly dedicated unto the Lord for the work of the presidency.\n94:8 And ye shall not suffer any unclean thing to come in unto it; and my glory shall be there, and my presence shall be there.\n94:9 But if there shall come into it any unclean thing, my glory shall not be there; and my presence shall not come into it.\n94:10 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 whatsoever I shall command you.\n94:11 And it shall be fifty-five by sixty-five feet in the width thereof and the length thereof, in the inner court; and there shall be a lower and a higher court.\n94:12 And this house shall be wholly dedicated unto the Lord from the foundation thereof, for the work of the printing, in all things whatsoever I shall command you, to be holy, undefiled, according to the pattern in all things as it shall be given unto you.\n94:13 And on the third lot shall my servant Hyrum Smith receive his inheritance.\n94:14 And on the first and second lots on the north shall my servants Reynolds Cahoon and Jared Carter receive their inheritances\u2014\n94:15 That they may do the work which I have appointed unto them, to be a committee to build mine houses, according to the commandment, which I, the Lord God, have given unto you.\n94:16 These two houses are not to be built until I give unto you a commandment concerning them.\n94:17 And now I give unto you no more at this time. Amen.","title":"Doctrine and Convenants: 94. Revelation through Joseph Smith, Kirtland, Ohio, May 6, 1833.","type":"page"}