Item Detail
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32634
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English
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A Passover Setting for Lehi's Exodus
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
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2020
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34
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Orem, UT
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Interpreter Foundation
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119-142
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"Later in his life, former Palmyra resident Fayette Lapham recounted with sharp detail an 1830 interview he conducted with Joseph Smith Sr. about the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. Among the details he reports that Lehi’s exodus from Jerusalem occurred during a 'great feast.' This detail, not found in the published Book of Mormon, may reveal some of what Joseph Sr. knew from the lost 116 pages. By examining the small plates account of this narrative in 1 Nephi 1−5, we see not only that such a feast was possible, but that Lehi’s exodus and Nephi’s quest for the brass plates occurred at Passover. This Passover setting helps explain why Nephi killed Laban and other distinctive features of Lehi’s exodus. Read in its Passover context, the story of Lehi is not just the story of one man’s deliverance, but of the deliverance of humankind by the Lamb of God. The Passover setting in which it begins illuminates the meaning of the Book of Mormon as a whole." [Publisher]
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https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/a-passover-setting-for-lehis-exodus/
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