Fewer words version: After I [Nephi] spoke with the Lord, I went to my father's [Lehi's] tent. He said to me, "God appeared to me in a dream and said: Send your sons back to Jerusalem to get the brass plates upon which is recorded your genealogy and the history of the Jews. A man named Laban has the plates. Go get them from him."
And it came to pass that I, Nephi, returned from speaking with the Lord, to the tent of my father. And it came to pass that he spake unto me, saying: Behold I have dreamed a dream, in the which the Lord hath commanded me that thou and thy brethren shall return to Jerusalem. For behold, Laban hath the record of the Jews and also a genealogy of my forefathers, and they are engraven upon plates of brass. Wherefore, the Lord hath commanded me that thou and thy brothers should go unto the house of Laban, and seek the records, and bring them down hither into the wilderness. 1 Nephi 3:1-4
