Doctrine and Covenants Chapter 94

• 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.
• 2 And behold, it must be done according to the pattern which I have given unto you.
• 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.
• 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.
• 5 And there shall be a lower court and a higher court, according to the pattern which shall be given unto you hereafter.
• 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.
• 7 And it shall be wholly dedicated unto the Lord for the work of the presidency.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 13 And on the third lot shall my servant Hyrum Smith receive his inheritance.
• 14 And on the first and second lots on the north shall my servants Reynolds Cahoon and Jared Carter receive their inheritances--
• 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.
• 16 These two houses are not to be built until I give unto you a commandment concerning them.
• 17 And now I give unto you no more at this time. Amen.