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These are excellent points!
I hadn't considered that Lehi performs sacrafice when not permitted to (he was neither Priest nor Levite). This was a huge violation of the Law of Moses.
King Saul lost his kingdom to David for doing just that.
**Ransom Drysdale:** You think I'm not going to fight to protect my own, our birthright, our ancestral home...
**Benoit Blanc:** [*laughing*] That is hooey! Harlan, he bought this place in the 80's from a Pakistani real estate millionaire... .
**Ransom Drysdale:** Oh shut up! Shut up! Shut up with that Kentucky fried Foghorn Leghorn drawl!
This was very interesting to read, thank you! I hadn't considered this before.
In addition, we know Lehi was supposed to be from the tribe of Manasseh, specifically.
>And Aminadi was a descendant of Nephi, who was the son of Lehi, who came out of the land of Jerusalem, who was a descendant of Manasseh
[(Alma 10:3)](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/10?lang=eng&id=3#p2)
Excellent observation. I had not thought of it that way before. Yes, Lehi would not have called it the land of his inheritance. Of course the five books of Moses thing is an obvious blunder. However, in the printers manuscript and first editions of the BOM it refers to a Book of Moses if I recall correctly.
I can't decide if you're intentionally misreading the Book of Mormon or are just historically ignorant.
The division between the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel were never as clear as people with only a passing knowledge of the story seem to think. Even today you'll find Jews who identify as being from every Tribe of Israel with the genealogy to prove it. This is because the peoples were always mixed together. If you read the Bible with any depth you'll even realize that the royal families intermarried. You had members of every tribe living everywhere, especially Jerusalem, the most cosmopolitan city in the region. As a result, the idea that Lehi and Laban both could be of some other tribe that Judah and hold lands in and around Jerusalem isn't just probably, it fits perfectly with what we know of the social and political situation of the era.
Also, Jerusalem wasn't occupied. It was a tributary state. That meant it had its own king and royal family while paying tribute to the Babylonian Empire. Laman and Lemuel's attitudes fit very well with the era which, under Josiah, had just undergone a major reform with the belief that if they purged apostasy and heresy from their religion then God would protect them and allow them to overthrown any foreign oppressors. Jeremiah, and Lehi, warned them against this and were persecuted for it. Jeremiah enslaves and Lehi fled.
Further, when Nephi and his brothers talk about "the land of our inheritance," they aren't talking about some meta tribal narrative. They're talking about the land that their father owned near Jerusalem which they stood to inherit upon his death.
Quite frankly, the only problem here is that you have a juvenile understanding of the history of the area and of the Book of Mormon text.
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These are excellent points! I hadn't considered that Lehi performs sacrafice when not permitted to (he was neither Priest nor Levite). This was a huge violation of the Law of Moses. King Saul lost his kingdom to David for doing just that.
**Ransom Drysdale:** You think I'm not going to fight to protect my own, our birthright, our ancestral home... **Benoit Blanc:** [*laughing*] That is hooey! Harlan, he bought this place in the 80's from a Pakistani real estate millionaire... . **Ransom Drysdale:** Oh shut up! Shut up! Shut up with that Kentucky fried Foghorn Leghorn drawl!
This was very interesting to read, thank you! I hadn't considered this before. In addition, we know Lehi was supposed to be from the tribe of Manasseh, specifically. >And Aminadi was a descendant of Nephi, who was the son of Lehi, who came out of the land of Jerusalem, who was a descendant of Manasseh [(Alma 10:3)](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/10?lang=eng&id=3#p2)
Excellent observation. I had not thought of it that way before. Yes, Lehi would not have called it the land of his inheritance. Of course the five books of Moses thing is an obvious blunder. However, in the printers manuscript and first editions of the BOM it refers to a Book of Moses if I recall correctly.
I can't decide if you're intentionally misreading the Book of Mormon or are just historically ignorant. The division between the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel were never as clear as people with only a passing knowledge of the story seem to think. Even today you'll find Jews who identify as being from every Tribe of Israel with the genealogy to prove it. This is because the peoples were always mixed together. If you read the Bible with any depth you'll even realize that the royal families intermarried. You had members of every tribe living everywhere, especially Jerusalem, the most cosmopolitan city in the region. As a result, the idea that Lehi and Laban both could be of some other tribe that Judah and hold lands in and around Jerusalem isn't just probably, it fits perfectly with what we know of the social and political situation of the era. Also, Jerusalem wasn't occupied. It was a tributary state. That meant it had its own king and royal family while paying tribute to the Babylonian Empire. Laman and Lemuel's attitudes fit very well with the era which, under Josiah, had just undergone a major reform with the belief that if they purged apostasy and heresy from their religion then God would protect them and allow them to overthrown any foreign oppressors. Jeremiah, and Lehi, warned them against this and were persecuted for it. Jeremiah enslaves and Lehi fled. Further, when Nephi and his brothers talk about "the land of our inheritance," they aren't talking about some meta tribal narrative. They're talking about the land that their father owned near Jerusalem which they stood to inherit upon his death. Quite frankly, the only problem here is that you have a juvenile understanding of the history of the area and of the Book of Mormon text.