Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, late in August 1831 (see History of the Church, 1:206–11). The Prophet, Sidney Rigdon, and Oliver Cowdery had arrived in Kirtland on 27 August from their visit to Missouri. Prefacing his record of this revelation, the Prophet wrote, “In these infant days of the Church, there was a great anxiety to obtain the word of the Lord upon every subject that in any way concerned our salvation; and as the land of Zion was now the most important temporal object in view, I enquired of the Lord for further information upon the gathering of the Saints, and the purchase of the land, and other matters” (History of the Church, 1:207).