Tag: ishmael
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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…