The words, blessings, and prophecies of Lehi to his posterity. Comprising chapters 1 to 4 inclusive.
Original Chapter 1. Comprising chapters 1 and 2.
Wherefore, I, Lehi, have obtained a promise, that inasmuch as those whom 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.
In Royal Skousen’s “The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text”, 2 Nephi 1:9 reads a little differently: