Doctrine and Covenants 57: 5

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

SECTION 57

5 And also every tract bordering by the prairies, inasmuch as my disciples are enabled to ^abuy lands. Behold, this is wisdom, that they may ^bobtain it for an everlasting inheritance.

Footnotes

D&C 42: 35.

35 And for the purpose of ^apurchasing lands for the public benefit of the church, and building houses of ^bworship, and building up of the ^cNew Jerusalem which is hereafter to be revealed—

D&C 58: 49 (49-51).

49 And let there be an agent appointed by the voice of the church, unto the church in Ohio, to receive moneys to ^apurchase lands in ^bZion.

D&C 101: 70 (68-74).

70 Which saith, or teacheth, to ^apurchase all the lands with money, which can be purchased for money, in the region round about the land which I have appointed to be the land of Zion, for the beginning of the gathering of my saints;

D&C 103: 23 (22-24).

23 And let all the churches send up wise men with their moneys, and ^apurchase lands even as I have commanded them.

Matt. 5: 5.

5 Blessed are the ^ameek: for they shall inherit the ^bearth.

D&C 56: 20.

20 And their generations shall ^ainherit the earth from generation to generation, forever and ever. And now I make an end of speaking unto you. Even so. Amen.

D&C 59: 2.

2 For those that live shall ^ainherit the earth, and those that ^bdie shall rest from all their labors, and their works shall follow them; and they shall receive a ^ccrown in the ^dmansions of my Father, which I have prepared for them.

TG Lands of Inheritance.