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According to the Book of Mormon, Lehi (/ ˈ l iː h aɪ / LEE-hy) [1] was a prophet who lived in Jerusalem during the reign of King Zedekiah (approximately 600 BC). [2] In First Nephi, Lehi is rejected for preaching repentance and he leads his family, including Sariah, Laman, Lemuel, Sam, and Nephi, into the wilderness.
The first major figure in the Book of Mormon, Nephi is regarded by members of the Latter Day Saint Movement as a prophet, political leader, and record keeper. Bergin points out that Nephi shares some semblance to Moses , such as being a colonial leader.
The Book of Mormon describes a number of individuals unique to its narrative as prophets.Here, the prophets included are those who, according to the narrative, inherited the plates of Nephi and who otherwise are called prophets within the text.
In his book The Story of the Book of Mormon (published in 1888), LDS Church general authority George Reynolds interpreted folios 2-3 of Codex Boturini to be a representation of Lehi's dream. [27] In this interpretation, of the group of five people closest to the tree, three are Sariah, Sam, and Nephi eating its fruit, and the other two are ...
Lehi 1, Hebrew prophet who led family and followers to promised land in western hemisphere. Father of Laman 1, Lemuel, Nephi 1, Sam, Jacob 2, Joseph 2, and several daughters. Recipient of Liahona. [171] His visions [172] foretold major divisions described throughout the Book of Mormon.
The Book of Mormon mentions Jacob as the younger brother of Nephi, and the elder of two sons born to Lehi (the younger son being Joseph) after Lehi's departure from Jerusalem. It does not explicitly name Lehi's wife Sariah as the mother of Jacob or Joseph, but no other wife of Lehi is ever mentioned. [2]
Lehi's responses, using mostly "I," and "my," fail to unify them, and she is only truly comforted by the return of her children. [17] In The Book of Mormon for the Least of These, Fatimah S. Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming talk of Sariah's experience in the same passage. They claim that while most people read the verses as a negative ...
Enos (/ ˈ iː n ə s /; [1] Hebrew: אֱנוֹשׁ) is a figure in the Book of Mormon who is a son or grandson [2] of Jacob, a Nephite prophet and author of the Book of Enos. According to the Book of Mormon, Enos lived sometime in the 6th century BC.
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