75 For the Lord had not hitherto suffered that we should make much fire as we journeyed in the wilderness,
76 For He saith: "I will make that thy food shall become sweet, that ye cook it not;
77 And I will also be your light in the wilderness;
78 And I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep My commandments;
79 Wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep My commandments ye shall be led toward the Promised Land, And ye shall know that it is by Me that ye are led."
80 Yea, and the Lord said also that, "After ye have arrived to the Promised Land ye shall know that I, the Lord, am God,
81 And that I, the Lord, did deliver you from destruction -
82 Yea, that I did bring you out of the Land of Jerusalem."
83 Wherefore, I, Nephi, did strive to keep the commandments of the Lord, And I did exhort my brethren to faithfulness and diligence.
84 And it came to pass that I did make tools of the ore which I did molten out of the rock.
85 And when my brethren saw that I was about to build a ship, they began to murmur against me, saying: