And now my son Laman, and also Lemuel and Sam,
and also my sons which are the sons of Ishmael,
behold, if ye will hearken unto the voice of Nephi,
ye shall not perish.
And if ye will hearken unto him,
I leave unto you a blessing, yea, even my first blessing.

And it must needs be that the power of God must be with him,
even unto his commanding you that ye must obey.
But behold, it was not him,
but it was the Spirit of the Lord which was in him
which opened his mouth to utterance, that he could not shut it.

Rebel no more against your brother,
whose views have been glorious,
and who hath kept the commandments from the time we left Jerusalem,
and who hath been an instrument in the hands of God
in bringing us forth into the land of promise.
For were it not for him, we must have perished with hunger in the wilderness.
Nevertheless ye sought to take away his life.
Yea, and he hath suffered much sorrow because of you.

Note: excludes a word “that” which appears in the current Book of Mormon edition.

And he hath said that
inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments,
ye shall prosper in the land.
But inasmuch as ye will not keep his commandments,
ye shall be cut off from his presence.

My heart hath been weighed down with sorrow from time to time,
for I have feared, lest for the hardness of your hearts,
lest the Lord your God should come out
in the fullness of his wrath upon you,
that ye be cut off and destroyed forever,

But behold, when the time cometh
that they shall dwindle in unbelief,
after that they have received so great blessings from the hand of the Lord,
having a knowledge of the creation of the earth and all men,
knowing the great and marvelous works of the Lord
from the creation of the world,
having power given them to do all things by faith,
having all the commandments from the beginning,
and having been brought by his infinite goodness
into this precious land of promise,
behold, I say, if the day shall come
that they will reject the Holy One of Israel,
the true Messiah, their Redeemer and their God,
behold, the judgments of him that is just shall rest upon them.

Wherefore I Lehi have obtained a promise that
inasmuch as they which the Lord God shall bring out of the land of Jerusalem
shall keep his commandments,
they shall prosper upon the face of this land.
And they shall be kept from all other nations,
that they may possess this land unto themselves.
And if it so be that they shall keep his commandments,
they shall be blessed upon the face of this land.
And there shall be none to molest them
nor to take away the land of their inheritance,
and they shall dwell safely forever.

And behold it is wisdom that this land should be kept
as yet from the knowledge of other nations.
For behold, many nations would overrun this land,
that there would be no place for an inheritance.

Wherefore I Lehi prophesy
according to the workings of the Spirit which is in me
that there shall be none come into this land
save they should be brought by the hand of the Lord.

But said he, notwithstanding our afflictions,
we have obtained a land of promise,
a land which is choice above all other lands,
a land which the Lord God hath covenanted with me
should be a land for the inheritance of my seed.
Yea, the Lord hath consecrated this land unto me and to my children forever,
and also all they which should be led out of other countries
by the hand of the Lord.