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Image by Jerry Thompson via lds.org
1 Nephi 6:5–6
KnoWhy #262
January 16, 2017
Why Did Nephi Work So Hard to Preserve the Wisdom He Had Received?
“Jeremiah in Prison” by Robert T. Barrett
1 Nephi 7:14
KnoWhy #463
August 30, 2018
How Could Nephi Have Known about Jeremiah’s Imprisonment?
Lehi Offers Sacrifice in the Wilderness
1 Nephi 7:22
KnoWhy #9
January 12, 2016
How Could Lehi Offer Sacrifices Outside of Jerusalem?
“Lehi and family offer burnt sacrifice” via Gospel Media Library
1 Nephi 7:22
KnoWhy #545
January 9, 2020
What Sacrifices did Lehi Offer to God in the Wilderness?
"Tree of Life and Rod of Iron" by Jerry Thompson via LDS Media Library
1 Nephi 8:4
KnoWhy #474
October 9, 2018
Why Are There So Many Similarities between the Dreams of Lehi and Joseph Smith, Sr.?
Still from “Lehi Sees a Vision of the Tree of Life” via Gospel Media Library
1 Nephi 8:7
KnoWhy #544
January 3, 2020
Why Did Lehi and Jeremiah Find Themselves in a Dark and Dreary Wilderness?
Jesus Mourning via LDS Media Library
1 Nephi 8:8
KnoWhy #438
May 31, 2018
Why Do Biblical Psalms of Lament Show Up in the Book of Mormon?
Book of Mormon Central composition of The Tree of Life by Krista Maureen Jones and El sueño by Jorge Cocco
1 Nephi 8:8
KnoWhy #325
June 12, 2017
Why Did Lehi Quote from a Psalm of Repentance In His Dream?
The Tree of Life bearing white fruit
1 Nephi 8:11
KnoWhy #10
January 13, 2016
What Fruit is White?
Photo by Andrey Grinkevich on Unsplash
1 Nephi 8:13–14
KnoWhy #402
January 25, 2018
Why We Still Have to Cling to the Iron Rod Even Though the Path is Strait
Photo by Stephen Leonardi on Unsplash
1 Nephi 8:20
KnoWhy #456
August 7, 2018
Is the Path to Eternal Life “Strait” or “Straight"?
Nephi Subduing his Brothers by Arnold Friberg
1 Nephi 9:4
KnoWhy #11
January 14, 2016
Why Did Nephi Write His Small Plates?
The Granite Mountain Records Vault via lds.org
1 Nephi 9:5
KnoWhy #345
July 28, 2017
Why Is It Important to Keep Records?
Still Image from Joseph Smith: Plates of Gold
1 Nephi 9:5
KnoWhy #452
July 24, 2018
What Was on the Lost 116 Pages?
Image of Christ via LDS Media Library
1 Nephi 10:4
KnoWhy #448
July 10, 2018
Why Did Nephi Clarify That the Messiah Was the Savior of the World?
Lehi Announces Departure by Owen Richardson
1 Nephi 10:4
KnoWhy #475
October 11, 2018
When Did Lehi Leave Jerusalem?
“The Olive Grove” by Nancy Andruk Olson
1 Nephi 10:12
KnoWhy #466
September 11, 2018
Was Lehi Familiar with Zenos’s Allegory of the Olive Tree?
Servant and El by Jody Livingston
1 Nephi 10:17
KnoWhy #12
January 15, 2016
Did Pre-Christian Prophets Know About Christ?
Image of Draper Utah Temple via lds.org
1 Nephi 11:1
KnoWhy #396
January 4, 2018
How Do the Book of Moses and Book of Mormon Help Us Understand the Endowment?
"Ye Shall Have My Words" by Judith Mehr
1 Nephi 11:2–3
KnoWhy #471
September 27, 2018
Why Can Nephi’s Vision Be Called an Apocalypse?
"Nephi’s Vision of the Virgin and the Son of God" by C. C. A. Christensen, via history.lds.org.
1 Nephi 11:11
KnoWhy #492
December 11, 2018
Why Were Lehi and Nephi Guided by Angelic Escorts in Their Visions?
Mary the mother of Jesus depicted as the Tree of Life
1 Nephi 11:18
KnoWhy #13
January 18, 2016
What Does the Virgin Mary Have to Do with the Tree of Life?
“Mary, the Mother of Jesus” via Gospel Media Library
1 Nephi 11:22
KnoWhy #543
December 24, 2019
Why Didn’t Nephi Mention Mary’s Name?
Lehi's Dream by Jerry Thompson
1 Nephi 11:25
KnoWhy #427
April 24, 2018
How Are Rod and Sword Connected to the Word of God?
Photo of Hebrew text by Ri Butov from Pixabay
1 Nephi 12:6–7
KnoWhy #661
March 7, 2023
Why Are There Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon?
Tree of Life by Krista Maureen Jones
1 Nephi 12:16–17
KnoWhy #404
February 1, 2018
What Does an Ancient Book About Enoch Have to Do With Lehi’s Dream?
A deep wadi illustrating the great and terrible gulf in Lehi's dream
1 Nephi 12:18
KnoWhy #14
January 19, 2016
What was the Great and Terrible Gulf in Lehi’s Dream?
“The great and spacious building” via Gospel Media Library
1 Nephi 12:18
KnoWhy #546
January 17, 2020
What is the Significance of the Great and Spacious Building?
Image by Book of Mormon Central. Contains: Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo, ca. 1519 via Wikimedia Commons; World Map ca. 1689 via Wikimedia Commons; Photograph of the Book of Mormon by Jasmin Gimenez Rappleye.
1 Nephi 13:12
KnoWhy #547
January 23, 2020
Why Did Nephi Prophesy of Christopher Columbus?
Gutenberg Bible
1 Nephi 13:26
KnoWhy #15
January 20, 2016
Were Plain and Precious Doctrines Lost?
Photo of a bible by kiwihug via Unsplash.
1 Nephi 13:28
KnoWhy #628
January 18, 2022
Why Did Joseph Smith Produce a New Translation of the Bible?
Photo by Natalia Y on Unsplash
1 Nephi 13:39
KnoWhy #376
October 26, 2017
What Were the “Other Records” Nephi Saw in Vision?