“We Had Sailed for the Space of Many Days”

Jana Reiss

Because of the vagueness of the phrase “many days,” we do not know how long the family was at sea. If the text revealed more about the trip’s duration, it might be easier to determine their eventual destination simply by calculating the time it might take to get there by sea. As it is, all we know is that they settled somewhere in the Americas.

The Book of Mormon: Selections Annotated & Explained

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