Doctrine and Covenants 135: 4

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THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

SECTION 135

4 When Joseph went to Carthage to deliver himself up to the pretended requirements of the law, two or three days previous to his assassination, he said: “I am going like a ^alamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer’s morning; I have a ^bconscience ^cvoid of offense towards God, and towards all men. I SHALL DIE INNOCENT, AND IT SHALL YET BE SAID OF ME—HE WAS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD.”—The same morning, after Hyrum had made ready to go—shall it be said to the slaughter? yes, for so it was—he read the following paragraph, near the close of the twelfth chapter of Ether, in the Book of Mormon, and turned down the leaf upon it:

Footnotes

4a	Isa. 53: 7. 7 He was ^aoppressed, and he was ^bafflicted, yet he ^copened not his mouth: he is brought as a ^dlamb to the ^eslaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. Jer. 11: 19. 19 But I was like a ^alamb or an ox that is brought to the ^bslaughter; and I knew not that they had ^cdevised ^ddevices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us ^ecut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. Mosiah 14: 7. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he ^aopened not his mouth; he is brought as a ^blamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth.
b	TG Conscience.
c	TG Purity.