This episode is part 3 in a series going through the story of the Book of Mormon.
2 Nephi chapters 1-3 cover most of the elder Lehi’s words of blessings and warnings to his children. He advises his sons Laman and Lemuel to obey Nephi’s words.
Lehi seems to wax eloquent with a doctrinal dissertation on the atonement of the future Messiah, creation, the fall of Satan and Adam and Eve, and the necessity of free will.
He also claims that the fall of humanity was necessary for humans to have children. The dominion mandate and the command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were conflicting commands from God!
Also, Lehi claims that Abraham’s great-grandson Joseph prophesied of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon.
Further research:
Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration
The Book of Mormon online: 2 Nephi [chapters 1, 2, 3]
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