“I Nephi, Returned from Speaking with the Lord, to the Tent of My Father”

W. Cleon Skousen

After this second revelation, Nephi hurried to the tent of his father to give Lehi the good news that he had received two revelations. But apparently he never got to tell his father about them just then, because the moment Lehi saw his son, the record says:

“And it came to pass that I, Nephi, returned from speaking with the Lord, to the tent of my father. And it came to pass that he spake unto me, saying: Behold I have dreamed a dream, in the which the Lord hath commanded me that thou and thy brethren shall return to Jerusalem. For behold, Laban hath the record of the Jews and also a genealogy of my forefathers, and they are engraven upon plates of brass. Wherefore, the Lord hath commanded me that thou and thy brothers should go unto the house of Laban, and seek the records, and bring them down hither into the wilderness.”

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