¶ The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one ^astick^•, and ^bwrite upon it, For ^cJudah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and ^dwrite upon it, For ^eJoseph, the ^fstick^• of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:

 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become ^aone^• in thine hand.

 ¶ And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us ^awhat^• thou meanest by these?

 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of ^aJoseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.

Joseph in Egypt saw the Nephites in vision—He prophesied of Joseph Smith, the latter-day seer; of Moses, who would deliver Israel; and of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. [Between 588 and 570 B.C.]

Many gentiles shall reject the Book of Mormon—They shall say: We need no more Bible—The Lord speaks to many nations—He will judge the world out of the books thus written. [Between 559 and 545 B.C.]

 ^aAnd^• Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and ^bbring you out of this land unto the ^cland which he sware to ^dAbraham^•, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

 And Joseph took an ^aoath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my ^bbones^• from hence.

 So ^aJoseph^{• b}died^•, being an hundred and ten years old: and they ^cembalmed^• him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.