The next morning, when my father went to his tent door, to his great astonishment he saw a ball of strange workmanship, made of fine brass, sitting on the ground.
Within the ball were two spindles. One pointed the way that we should go into the wilderness.
We gathered our provisions that the Lord had given us, and the rest of the things we needed for our journey, including all types of seeds. Then we packed our tents and crossed the river that my father had named Laman.
After traveling in a south-southeastern direction for four days, we set up camp in a place we called Shazer.
Then my brothers and I went into the wilderness with our bows and arrows to hunt for food. After finding food, we returned to our families. Then we continued our journey, traveling south-southeast, staying in the most fertile areas along the borders of the Red Sea.
