Category: Daily Scripture Notes
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1 Nephi 9 – For A Wise Purpose
Intro, This is the second of Nephi’s three interludes (see ch 6 & ch 19). It also ends his summary of his father’s record (see 1:17 & 10:1), though he continues to quote his father in the next chapter. Each of Nephi’s interludes reminds the reader that Nephi is not messing around with these small…
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1 Nephi 8 – Lehi’s Vision of the Tree of Life
Intro, Latter-day saints are familiar with the vision, but how well do we really know it? How close have we actually read? Try my 10-question quiz. I’ll help with some references. Oh, and my quizzes are not just about getting the right answers, they’re about getting us to read more carefully and think more deeply.…
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1 Nephi 7
2-6 bring down Ishmael and his family, Why Ishmael? (1) his ancestry – While Lehi was of Joseph through Mannasseh (Alma 10:3), Ishmael was of the lineage of Ephraim (according to Joseph Smith, JD 23:184-85). Uniting the families thus fulfilled Jacob/Israel’s promise to Joseph and his twin grandsons that their seed would be “great…a multitude of…
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1 Nephi 6
2 For it sufficeth me to say that we are descendants of Joseph, and with that Nephi summarizes the entirety of Lehi’s record. In the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon, this chapter begins chapter two (1830 1 Ne 2). The theme of chapter one (1 Ne 1-5), which was likely the theme of Lehi’s…
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1 Nephi 5
1-8 Sariah…complained… did mourn… was comforted… was exceedingly glad… was filled with joy… knew of a surety, The specificity of the account suggests that Nephi and Sariah were close and that she herself must have related the story to Nephi. But notably, women are rarely a part of the complaining in Nephi’s account (1 Ne 7:19; 1 Ne 17:2;…
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1 Nephi 1
1:1 and having seen many afflictions in the course of my days, nevertheless, having been highly favored of the Lord in all my days It is Nephi’s ability to see God’s love and tender mercies in the midst of his afflictions that distinguishes him from his brothers, and from most of us. Too often we see these two…
Holy Envy 