Tag: joseph-smith
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1 Nephi 10 – The Scattering & Gathering Of Israel
Intro, I could not overemphasize how important this chapter is. It summarizes and applies all of Lehi’s visions and teachings, introduces Nephi’s own upcoming visions and prophecies, sums up the central message Mormon and Moroni seek to convey in the Book of Mormon, and contains the first outline of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And…
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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;…
Holy Envy 