“The time has been in Israel under the law of God, the celestial law, or that which pertains to the celestial law, for it is one of the laws of that kingdom where our Father dwells, that if a man was found guilty of adultery, he must have his blood shed, and that is near at hand.”

Brigham Young – 8 February 1857, Journal of Discourses – Volume 4 (Liverpool, England; S.W. Richards, 1857), 219.