Lehi's son, Nephi, is also shown the vision sometime later.

From Nahom, the group proceeded in an eastward direction across the desert until they reached a fertile coastal region they named Bountiful, where Lehi's son Nephi was instructed by the Lord to build a ship for the purpose of sailing across the ocean to the " promised land.

Laman was Lehi's first-born son.

Joseph Smith is reported to have said that in the Lost 116 pages Lehi's friend, Ishmael ( not to be confused with Abraham's son Ishmael ), who joined Lehi in escaping Jerusalem, was revealed to be a descendant of Ephraim.

He later prophesied ( Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 3 ) that a latter-day Joseph, son of Joseph, who would also be a descendant of the house of Joseph, would do a great work that would be a blessing to Lehi's descendants.

However, Lehi's fourth son, Nephi, vowed that he would obey God's command: " For I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.

* A genealogy of Lehi's own ancestors, revealing him to be a descendant of Joseph, son of the patriarch Jacob.

Nephi returns with his brothers and after several failed attempts, where Laban even tries to steal Lehi's property and murder his sons, become frustrated.

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.

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

Lehi's sons Nephi and Laman are said to have established themselves and to have founded Israelite nations: the Nephites and the Lamanites.

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.

Following Lehi's death, his older sons, Laman and Lemuel, rebelled against their younger brother Nephi, who had been appointed by their father as their leader.

The lost portion, part of the large plates of Nephi, contained Nephi's record of his father, Lehi's, ministry and was known as The Book of Lehi.

Lehi's sons are said to be characteristically Ephrathite, though it is uncertain what this means or why this would be ; Some LDS church leaders have suggested that Lehi's wife Sariah may have descended from Ephraim, which is historically considered a half-tribe, as Ephraim and Manasseh were twin sons of Joseph.

Lehi's sons marrying Ishmael's daughters would then explain why their descendents could have belonged to either the Tribe of Ephraim or the Tribe of Manasseh.

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.

The next verse reports that Lehi's group has resumed their journey and changed the direction of their travel " eastward " ().

Some scholars believe that Lehi's group followed the ancient frankincense trails in the northern part of Yemen at times during the initial leg of their journey.

Four of the six figures are facing the tree, representing those who ate of the fruit in Lehi's vision, and the Laman and Lemuel figures are facing away representing their rejection of the tree.

After the sons of Lehi marry the daughters of Ishmael, a " ball of curious workmanship " is discovered at Lehi's tent door.

In Lehi's vision of the tree of life, Sariah eats the precious fruit, symbolizing that she is righteous and will be saved.

Nahom () is a place referenced in the Book of Mormon () as one of the stops on the Old World segment of Lehi's journey.

Nahom is one of only a very few locations mentioned in the Book of Mormon that the text implies had been named prior to contact with the Lehite travelers, in contrast to Lehi's normal application of the Middle Eastern practice of naming locations after family members.

Although the actual location of NHM is plausible when compared to Lehi's purported route, his change of direction on the Arabian peninsula, the timeframe (~ 600 BC ) matching the archaeological dates, and the ancient burial ground found there, one non-LDS author has suggested a valid reason why Nahom and NHM may not represent the same location: the pronunciation of NHM is unknown.

Lehi's sons return to Jerusalem a second time, as directed by the Lord through the prophet Lehi, to retrieve the family of Ishmael.

Meeting Ishmael, they convince him and his family to leave Jerusalem together with Lehi's family.

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

During Lehi's underground struggle against the British in Mandatory Palestine, the organization's commander Yitzchak Shamir ( later Prime Minister of Israel ) adopted the nom de guerre " Michael ", in honor of Ireland's Michael Collins.

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

or ( 3 ) descended with modern Asians from common nomadic ancestry, diverging prior to Lehi's departure from Jerusalem.

Lehi's group proceeded southward down the Arabian Peninsula until they reached a location called Nahom.

In, Lehi's party makes its way from Jerusalem towards the promised land.

Spencer W. Kimball had received a commission to minister to all of Lehi's children from George Albert Smith.

According to the Book of Mormon narrative, Jacob was born in the wilderness during his father Lehi's journey from Jerusalem to the promised land ( the Americas ) sometime between 600 B. C.

Although in the book of First Nephi Jesus is never identified by name, he is identified as the son of God, a great prophet, the messiah, and the savior of the world.

" According to the book, it was written by the ancient prophet Nephi, son of Lehi, who lived around 600 BC.

* Nephi, son of Lehi

* Nephi, son of Lehi being in the wilderness and sailing to the Americas according to the Book of Mormon.

Within the context of the Book of Mormon, the Nephites were a group of people descended from or associated with Nephi, the son of the prophet Lehi who left Jerusalem at the urging of God c. 600 BC and traveled with his family to the Western Hemisphere, arriving in the present-day Americas c. 589 BC.

Nephi was named after Nephi, son of Lehi from the Book of Mormon.

* 2 Nephi 1: 30-32, Lehi speaks to Zoram: " And now, Zoram, I speak unto you: Behold, thou art the servant of Laban ... if ye shall keep the commandments of the Lord, the Lord hath consecrated this land for the security of thy seed with the seed of my son.

He was the son of Lehi, a prophet, founder of the Nephite people, and author of the first two books of the Book of Mormon, First and Second Nephi.

In the Book of Mormon, Sam () was the third son of Lehi, and elder brother to the prophet Nephi.

In Mormon culture, Dhofar is the most popular traditional location of the Book of Mormon land of Bountiful, from which the nomadic family of Lehi sailed in a ship constructed by his son Nephi, to the New World.

Nephites descended from the youngest son, Nephi, while Lamanites descended from the elder brothers, Laman and Lemuel.

Enos was given charge of the record by his father, Jacob, son of Lehi and brother of Nephi.

After Mosiah's death, during the reign of his son, King Benjamin, an army of Nephites determined to return to the land of Nephi and " possess the land of their inheritance " ( Omni 1: 27 ).

# REDIRECT Nephi, son of Lehi

* Sam ( Book of Mormon ), the third son of Lehi and elder brother to the prophet Nephi

* First Book of Nephi, the first subdivision of the Book of Mormon, written by Nephi, son of Lehi

* Second Book of Nephi, the second subdivision of the Book of Mormon, written by Nephi, son of Lehi