What if Lehi’s family’s Exodus occured during Passover? What if Lehi and Laban were brothers? symbolism in the scriptures. God’s unique signature, or sealing of his testimony as an artist in history.
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[00:00:15] Speaker A: Surprise. Welcome to the weekly Deep Dive podcast on the Add on Education network. The podcast where we take a look at the weekly come follow me discussions and try to add a little insight and unique perspective. I am your host, Jason Lloyd, here in the studio in the middle of the week with our friend and this show’s producer, Nate Pyfer.
[00:00:32] Speaker B: Yeah, baby.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:00:34] Speaker B: Surprise, surprise, surprise.
[00:00:36] Speaker A: Bonus episode for you guys out there in listening land.
[00:00:41] Speaker B: Listening land.
[00:00:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:00:42] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:00:43] Speaker A: Haven’t dropped that one yet.
[00:00:44] Speaker B: I mean, that is a new one. I was trying to process it still, actually.
[00:00:49] Speaker A: Well, welcome all you out there in listening land.
It’s getting worse.
So to give you a little bit of context to try to erase what I recently said and replace it with some value, this week I was reading an article on LDS Living by Don Bradley. If you haven’t read anything from Don Bradley, really love the guy. He’s done a lot of research into early church history documents, and he’s found interviews with Joseph Smith senior that are fairly credible. He wrote a book called what’s in the lost 116 pages, and this article on LDS living talked about what we learned from the lost 116 pages. And really, it’s what we’ve learned from the snippets, the snapshots, the things that he’s been able to pull out of history that kind of give us an inside look at what was lost there. And in this article, he highlighted a few things, one of which was Joseph Smith struggled pronouncing the name Saria. And we get that from Emma in her notes, talking about Joseph Smith and translating with him as she was scribing for him, translating, I should say. And also, Joseph Smith had no idea that there were walls surrounding the city of Jerusalem.
And so putting these pieces together, it would sound like Emma’s translating the first part of Nephi. That’s where we see Saria. That’s where we see the walls of Jerusalem. But we know from the original manuscripts of the Book of Mormon, it wasn’t Emma. I believe it was Oliver Cowdry who was scribing for that portion of the Book of Mormon. So she must have been scribing for what I assume is the book of Lehigh, which is what’s contained in the last 116 pages, along with some other things in this as well. Don Bradley points out that Lehigh leaves Jerusalem during a jewish feast, a jewish holiday, and he even goes as far to suggest that this holiday was Passover. And as I was reading this article and started to think and reflect on this, all sorts of things started opening up in front of me. How do they say it? Like the scales on the eyes just dropped off. I just started to see all sorts of cool things, and I reached out to Nate, and my phone was Nate’s phone, I should say, was probably blowing up with all sorts of texts from me just talking about all the different things that I was seeing. And as we started discussing this and going back and forth and all the cool connections that we were making, the inside inspiration, revelation, whatever you want to call it, we decided we had to get this in a bonus episode. So here we sit, and I want to open this, really, I think I want to frame this discussion. This one will probably be a little bit of a shorter episode, as it’s a bonus with two questions.
And the first question that I want to pose to you, listening to this podcast, is, what if Lehi left Jerusalem during Passover? What’s the significance? What do we learn?
What if. So what?
And...
