“Joseph Brought His Father Down into the Land of Egypt”

D. Kelly Ogden, Andrew C. Skinner

A type or symbolic parallel is explained: Joseph of old invited his aging father, Jacob or Israel, and his family into Egypt to save them, just as the Lord took a remnant of Joseph’s descendants out of Jerusalem to save them. Now the descendants of the remnant of Joseph will build up the New Jerusalem as a beacon of salvation until this present earth passes away and is renewed.

Verse by Verse: The Book of Mormon: Vol. 2

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