Fulfilling the commandment of the Lord (see Ether 1:41), the families of Jared, his brother, and their friends made preparation for the long journey to their new land of inheritance. Thus they gathered different kinds of fowls, fish, seeds, and domestic flocks, also swarms of bees for honey production and crop pollenization. Special arrangements were made to take fresh fish with them. These preparations revere not only designed to sustain them during the journey; with males and females from their flocks they could perpetuate those flocks, and their supplies of seeds would ensure the planting of crops when they arrived at their destination.