Amulek, the dynamic, new member-missionary with only a brief training experience, went out and taught great, powerful sermons. He first established his family ties as a direct descendant of Lehi and was the first to specify the tribe from which Lehi descended. From 1 Nephi 5:14 we have already learned that Lehi was from the tribe of Joseph, but here, and only here, we learn that Lehi was descended from Joseph’s son Manasseh. According to apostle Erastus Snow, this truth was contained in the lost 116 pages of the book of Lehi. 16 Amulek further described himself as a self-made, independently wealthy man. He then went on to relate his conversion story.
The curious incident involving Aminadi, who interpreted a writing on the wall, is not mentioned elsewhere. It presumably finds a parallel in the Babylonian Empire of Belshazzar, recorded in Daniel 5:24–28.