“His Sons Should Take Daughters to Wife”

K. Douglas Bassett
(2 Ne. 5:6; Companion to Your Study of the Book of Mormon, Ludlow, pp. 99-100)
“The Prophet Joseph informed us that the record of Lehi was contained on the 116 pages that were first translated and subsequently stolen, and of which an abridgment is given us in the first Book of Nephi, which is the record of Nephi individually, he himself being of the lineage of Manasseh; but that Ishmael was of the lineage of Ephraim, and that his sons married into Lehi’s family, and Lehi’s sons married Ishmael’s daughters… .” (Erastus Snow, Journal of Discourses 23:184-185)

Latter-Day Commentary on the Book of Mormon

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