In a dream, God commands Lehi to leave Jerusalem with his family ( which include his wife, Sariah, and his four sons Laman, Lemuel, Sam, and Nephi ).

Laman and Lemuel take out their frustration by beating Nephi.

An angel appears and commands Laman and Lemuel to stop beating Nephi and return to retrieve the plates.

On the journey back to camp, Laman and Lemuel and some members of Ishmael's family rebel.

Upon finding the group, Laman and Lemuel try again to hurt Nephi, but they are softened by the daughters of Ishmael and ask for forgiveness from Nephi.

Most importantly, Nephi sees the future of his generations and the generations of Laman and Lemuel.

Whereas his people will have the gospel and will ultimately be destroyed for wickedness, the children of Laman and Lemuel will be raised without a knowledge of the gospel, survive the generations, and be taught by the Book of Mormon and the future church.

After Nephi's vision, he sees Laman and Lemuel, who are arguing over the meaning of Lehi's vision.

Laman and Lemuel decide to kill Lehi and Nephi, but voice of the Lord speaks many words to them and chastises them severely, causing them to change their minds and repent.

Laman and Lemuel see Nephi and mock him for trying to achieve an impossible task.

Being filled with the Spirit, he commands Laman and Lemuel not to touch him or they would die instantly.

Laman and Lemuel repent again, and begin helping Nephi build the ship.

Laman and Lemuel proclaim to Nephi, " We know of a surety that the Lord is with thee ".

Many days later, Laman and Lemuel and the sons of Ishmael begin partying, dancing, singing, and being rude.

At the pleading of their wives, and for fear of sinking, Laman and Lemuel release Nephi.

He shows how Laman and Lemuel, though they rebel many times, repent and are frankly forgiven by the Lord.

To the children of his sons Laman and Lemuel he says that if their parents teach them wickedness, that their sins will be the responsibility of the parents.

After the death of Lehi, Laman and Lemuel and others rebel against Nephi and try to kill him.

At this time, the people with Laman and Lemuel and others who remained behind had their skin turn dark, as a sign that the people of Nephi are not to mix with them until they repent.

The Book of Mormon describes the Lamanites as descendants of Laman and Lemuel, two rebellious brothers of a family of Israelites who crossed the ocean in a boat around 600 BC.

The second time, Nephi convinced Laman, Lemuel and Sam to try to buy the plates, using their abandoned wealth.

Laman and Lemuel started to beat their younger brothers severely.

An angel appeared and stopped them, telling Laman and Lemuel that, because of his righteousness, the Lord had made Nephi " a teacher and a ruler over them.

His brothers Laman and Lemuel rebelled shortly thereafter, and the colony split into two.

In the Book of Mormon, Laman () and Lemuel () are the two eldest sons of Lehi and the older brothers of Sam, Nephi, Jacob, and Joseph.

On the first occurrence, when they were beating Nephi and Sam with a rod, it tells how an angel visited the brothers, and the angel rebuked Laman and Lemuel.

Book of Mormon, Sariah () was the wife of Lehi, and the mother of Laman, Lemuel, Sam, Nephi, Jacob, and Joseph.

Lehi had six sons: Laman, Lemuel, Sam, Nephi, Jacob, and Joseph ; and at least two daughters, who were not named in the Book of Mormon.

After fleeing Jerusalem, the elder brothers Laman and Lemuel were angry with Lehi and their younger, more faithful, brothers Sam and Nephi, so they beat their siblings with rods.

Other Latter-day Saint researchers have claimed that the six figures at the level of the tree represent Lehi's family at the time of the vision, from left to right: Sariah, Lehi, Laman, Lemuel, Sam and Nephi.

Upon Lehi's death, his sons Nephi and Laman established two conflicting nations, the Nephites and the Lamanites, and as such is considered one of the principal ancestors of the Book of Mormon people.

Because God chose Nephi to lead Lehi's descendants after his death, Laman maintained that he had been robbed of his birthright, resulting in constant wars between the two peoples for nearly 600 years.

In the Book of Mormon there are incidences of Laman and Lemuel beating or binding up Nephi.

* Lemuel ( Book of Mormon ), the second eldest of Lehi's sons and the brother of Laman and Nephi

The daughters of Ishmael marry the sons of Lehi, but the sons of Ishmael join Laman and Lemuel in their rebellion against Nephi.

As the wife of Lehi, and the mother of Nephi and Laman ( who went on to establish the nations of the Nephites and the Lamanites ), Sariah can be considered one of the principal ancestors of the Book of Mormon people.

First, they sent Laman, who asked Laban for the plates.

Laban tried to kill Laman, accusing him of being a thief.

First, Laman went to Laban alone to request the records, but Laban cast Laman out of his house and threatened to kill him.

The followers of Laman, Lehi's oldest sons, were called Lamanites.

Laman Blanchard, writing in 1836, described the Rother as " a beauteous stream ", and noted that chub, roach and perch were caught by fishermen who fished from its banks.

On other occasions, Laman and Lemuel were chastened by the voice of the Lord, or " shocked " by divine power.

Lehi's two older sons, Laman and Lemuel, were reluctant to obey their father's order at first, fearful of Laban's power and ruthless reputation.

Another ten years of watchful peace followed, until the death of king Laman, when Laman's son and successor again tried to drive the Nephites out of their land, but the Lamanites were once again defeated.

His first magazine papers, among which were A Lounge in the Œil de Bœuf, An Excursion of some English Actors to China, Cousin Emily, and The Shrift on the Rail, brought him into communication with Harrison Ainsworth, Laman Blanchard, and other well-known men, and he soon became the centre of a strong muster of literary friends, who found pleasure in his wit and social qualities.