Now these are the circumstances which attended them in their journeyings, for they had many afflictions; they did suffer much, both in body and in mind, such as hunger, thirst and fatigue, and also much labor in the spirit. Now these were their journeyings:
Having taken leave of their father, Mosiah, in the first year of the judges; having refused the kingdom which their father was desirous to confer upon them, and also this was the minds of the people;
Nevertheless they departed out of the land of Zarahemla, [i]2881[/i] and took their swords, [v]85[/v] and their spears, and their bows, and their arrows, and their slings; and this they did that they might provide food for themselves while in the wilderness.
And thus they departed into the wilderness with their numbers which they had selected, [i]3128[/i] to go up to the land of Nephi, to preach the word of God unto the Lamanites.