- "Gather your flocks together, both male and female of every kind. Also gather all types of seeds. Gather your family, Jared's family, and your friends' families. Lead them all down into the valley to the north. I will meet you there and will go before you into a land more choice than any other. In that choice land, I will bless you and your descendants and raise up a great nation, and none will be greater in all the earth. I will do this because you have prayed to me so diligently.”
A choice land is promised...
(compare Ether, chapter 2)
Jared, his brother, their families, and their friends' families went into the valley in the north, named Nimrod (named after the mighty hunter), taking all their flocks with them. They set snares to catch live birds, and made containers in which to carry live fish. They also took beehives and all types of seed with them.
Upon arriving in Nimrod, the Lord came down and talked with Jared's brother. The Lord was in a cloud, and Jared's brother did not see Him. The Lord commanded them to go into an area of the wilderness where no man had ever been. Then the Lord went before them and talked with them as He stood in a cloud, and He directed them which way to go.
As they traveled, they came to many bodies of water. They crossed these small seas on barges that they made, and they were directed continually by the Lord's hand.
