The exile of Lehi’s family is simultaneously a recapitulation of the Exodus and a harbinger of the devastating exile that is about to befall Judah’s people. Lehi’s hasty departure, proximity to the Red Sea, extended period of wandering in the wilderness, and internal emigrant dissensions all recall the flight of the Israelites from Egypt, though Lehi is pursued by no one—if the biblical record is any indication, no one, in fact, seems to care at all. Presumably, the people of Jerusalem simply thought themselves well rid of the calamity-obsessed Lehi, whose presence is unrecorded in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. Despite Lehi’s obscurity, his family’s flight stands in stark contrast to the same exile those people would face just a few years later: whereas God led Lehi and Sariah to a new land and provided for their needs, God permitted the remaining Judeans to be carried off into Babylonian exile (see Psalm 137 for a suggestion of the deep pain this divine abandonment caused).