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How Did Laban Get The Brass Plates

22022018 This possibility is supported by the angels statement to Nephi that the Old Testament contains many of the prophecies of the holy prophets. The first third of the set contained two records.


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Then you ask why did Laban have them rather than King Zedekaih.

How did laban get the brass plates. Long passages appear as 1 Ne 20 21 2 Ne 12 to 24. They were still longing after their possessions back in Jerusalem many years later cf. 20062017 There is no indication that Nephi took a single item of that back or anything else in Labans treasury but only the brass plates.

Its important to note that when Nephi began this record he wrote with hindsight. Laban is a man mentioned in the First Book of Nephi as keeper of the brass plates in Jerusalem about 600 BC. 20112017 It was here encamped in the valley that Lehi called Lemuel resting from their lengthy journey from Jerusalem that Lehi dreamed a dream which is to say he had seen a vision as he told Nephi in which the Lord hath commanded me that thou and thy brethren shall return to Jerusalem for behold Laban hath the record of the Jews and also a genealogy of my forefathers and they are engraven upon plates of brass.

19062011 Nephis brothers wanted to return to their father in the wilderness but Nephi said they must obey the Lord and get the brass plates. After searching the plates of brass from the beginning Lehi was filled with the Spirit and began to prophesy concerning his seed That these plates of brass should go forth unto all nations kindreds tongues and people who were of his seed. Unlike many of the other Book of Mormon characters Laban neither ends up in the New World nor is he a Biblical character.

In any case Laman was chosen by casting lots. He had had more than 30 years to ponder the encounter with Laban and its importance became ever more significant to him. Although Laban only makes a brief appearance in the narrative his brass plates would later play an important role.

Nephi felt impressed by the Spirit to write this detailed account of how he obtained the brass plates see 1 Nephi 196. 09032009 Lehi and his family took with them the Brass Plates of Laban. God delivered Laban into Nephis hands so that he could kill him to obtain the plates which he did 1 Ne 46-18 Nephi obtained the plates by deceiving Labans household pretending to be Laban 1 Ne 420-26 Nephi copied many chapters of Isaiah from the brass plates onto the Plates of Nephi 1 Ne 1923.

And also the prophecies of the holy prophets from the beginning even down to the commencement of the. Wherefore he said that these plates of brass should never perish. These were 1 Mormons abridgment of the Large Plates of Nephi Moronis abridgment of the plates of the Jaredites Mormons and Moronis personal accounts and 2 the entire original record called the Small Plates of Nephi.

These plates were in the possession of Laban a sage and elder in Jerusalem. 21112017 First of all the Brass Plates contained the five books of Moses which gave an account of the creation of the world and also of Adam and Eve. Someone must have written on the plates of brass presumbly prophets of assigned scribes.

He knew how to deal with people. And it is a record like unto the engravings which are upon the plates of brass save there are not so many 1 Nephi 1323This suggests that there were many other books found in the plates of brass that did not make it into our current. The record contained the books of Moses many prophetic writings including Isaiah and the genealogy of the tribe of Joseph.

What was Labans response. How did the record of this prestigious Isra. Its unclear that Laman or Lemuel would have done the same thing.

Laban was presumably the keeper of the plates until then. The Brass Plates were inscribed with ancient scriptures many of them corresponding with books from the Old Testament that the prophet Lehi and his family took with them to the promised land of the Americas. Neither should they be dimmed any more by time 1 Ne.

He went to Laban and tried to make the case for having the plates. 1 Nephi 1721 and might well have felt the need to fill their pockets or a sack to get some of. The point is that he did not.

07112010 Laman was if you believe Hugh Nibley likely a successful businessman and trader at least one who worked with Lehi in the family business. They were probably not even called the Brass Plates of Laban except by the Nephites who took them from their keeper Laban. Nephi and his brothers decided to go back to their former home in Jerusalem and get their gold and silver to trade to Laban for the brass plates.

12082017 No metal plates from the eighth century BCE containing words of Isaiah have ever been discovered. Also a record of the Jews from the beginning even down to the commencement of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. Thus the Book of Mormon and the Brass Plates of Laban were precisely what the audience of the Book of Mormon would have expectedthe word of God on metal plates to Restore what was lost.

Laban ˈ l eɪ b ə n is a figure in the First Book of Nephi near the start of the Book of Mormon a scripture of the Latter Day Saint movement. He saw clearly. For behold Laban hath the record of the Jews and also a genealogy of my forefathers and they are engraven upon plates of brass.

Many shorter passages. In addition there were only three of the Old Testament book that were written after 600 BC Haggai 520 BC Zechariah 530 BC and and Malachi 397 BC. 28022008 The brass plates were apparently the personal records of of Lehis family it includes Lehis genealogy and was in the possession of his presumed relative LabanMosiah 14 mentions that the brass plates were engraved in the language of the egyptians.

The contained much of what we know as the Old Testament from the creation to Jeremia maybe even more than is in the OT.


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