2 Baruch 31

Related ancient text — scholarly reference

Extra-canonical text — not LDS scripture and not in the KJV Apocrypha. Provided as scholarly reference for parallel literature of the Second Temple period and the early Christian era. Read with discernment; the Apostle Jude quotes 1 Enoch and Paul knew this material, but inclusion here is for study, not doctrine.

1And it came to pass after these things that I went to the people and said unto them: 'Assemble unto me all your elders and I will speak words unto them.'

2And they all assembled in the valley of the Cedron.

3And I answered and said unto them: "Hear, O Israel, and I will speak to thee, And give ear, O seed of Jacob, and I will instruct thee.

4Forget not Zion, but hold in remembrance the anguish of Jerusalem.

5For lo! the days come, when everything that exists will become the prey of corruption and be as though it had not been.

Public-domain text (R.H. Charles 1913 and equivalents). These works are not canonical, but several were widely read in antiquity and one (1 Enoch) is quoted by name in Jude 1:14–15. Useful for understanding the doctrinal landscape from which the apostles and earliest saints taught.