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1 Nephi 2:4
A subtle detail can be found in verse 4: 4 And it came to pass that he departed into the wilderness. And he left his house, and the land of his inheritance, and his gold, and his silver, and his precious things, and took nothing with him, save it were his family, and provisions, and…
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1 Nephi 1:14-15
After seeing a vision, Lehi praises God in verses 14 and 15: 14 And it came to pass that when my father had read and seen many great and marvelous things, he did exclaim many things unto the Lord; such as: Great and marvelous are thy works, O Lord God Almighty! Thy throne is high…
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1 Nephi 1:1
The name Nephi likely stems from an Egyptian word nfr, which means “good” or “goodly”. Thus Nephi’s introduction of himself to the reader is likely a wordplay on his own name. 1 I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents, therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father; and having seen…
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1 Nephi 1:4
From verse 4: … in that same year there came many prophets, prophesying unto the people that they must repent, or the great city Jerusalem must be destroyed. The Lachish Letters are a collection of potsherd writings discovered in the 1930’s that date very tightly back to this time in Jerusalem’s history. They seem to…
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Internal Consistency between 1 Nephi 1:17 and 1 Nephi 10:1
In verse 17, Nephi promises to give us two things: First, an abridgment of his father’s record. Second, an account of his proceedings: 17 But I shall make an account of my proceedings in my days. Behold, I make an abridgment of the record of my father, upon plates which I have made with mine…
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Lord Wilmore posted: History shows Josiah’s death in 609 BC and other sons reigning before Zedekiah (who was only 8 when his father died), but Nephi and his family would likely have not considered those other sons to be true kings, therefore Jeffrey R. Chadwick posits that the first year of the reign of Zedekiah…
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