11 But, behold, at the end of this appointment, your baptisms for your dead shall not be acceptable unto me, and if you do not these things, at the end of the appointment ye shall be rejected as a church with your dead saith the Lord your God.— For, verily, I say unto you, that after you have had sufficient time to build a house unto me, wherein the of baptizing for the dead belongeth, and for which, the same was instituted from before the foundation of the world, your baptisms for your dead cannot be acceptable unto me, for therein are the of the holy , that you may receive honor and glory. And after this time, your baptisms for the dead, by those who are scattered abroad, are not acceptable unto me, saith the Lord; for it is ordained that in and in her , and in Jerusalem, those places which I have appointed for refuge, shall be the places for your baptisms for your dead.

12 And again, verily I say unto you, how shall your be acceptable unto me, except ye perform them in a house which you have built to my name? For, for this cause I commanded Moses that he should build a tabernacle, that they should bear it with them in the wilderness, and to build a house in the land of promise, that those ordinances might be revealed, which had been hid from before the world was; therefore verily I say unto you, that your , and your washings, and your baptisms for the dead, and your , and your memorials for your sacrifices, by the sons of Levi, and for your oracles in your most holy places, wherein you receive conversations, and your statutes, and judgments, for the beginning of the revelations and foundation of Zion, and for the glory, honor, and of all her municipals, are ordained by the ordinance of my holy house, which my people are always commanded to build unto my holy name.

13 And verily I say unto you let this be built unto my name, that I may reveal mine ordinances therein unto my people; for I deign to reveal unto my , things which have been kept [p. 4]