Why Did Laban Have The Brass Plates

From Laban the governor. Behold thou art a robber and I will slay thee.

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According to Alma the plates of brass were to be kept and handed down from one generation to another among the Nephites and be kept and preserved by the hand of the Lord until they should go forth unto every nation kindred tongue and people that they shall know of the mysteries contained thereon.

Why did laban have the brass plates. Alone on some forgotten highway. And he would not that he should have the records. Zoram obeyed thinking Nephi was Laban.

Also a record of the Jews from the beginning even down to the commencement of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. By grego 1 Nephi 3 Book of Mormon. 22022018 According to 1 Nephi 514 the brass plates contained the genealogy of the descendants of Joseph.

Next Nephi and his brothers offered all of their families valuables that they had left behind in Jerusalem after they had fled into the wilderness to Laban in return for the brass plates. It is interesting to note that the 20 chapters of the Book of Mormon Isaiah hand copied from the Brass Plates by the Nephite prophets and translated into English by Joseph Smith by the gift and power of God represent the most correct and the most ancient record of. And behold it came to pass that Laban was angry and thrust him out from his presence.

In any case Laman was chosen by casting lots. He knew how to deal with people. 09032009 Lehi and his family took with them the Brass Plates of Laban.

First Laman went to Laban alone to request the records but Laban cast Laman out of his house and threatened to kill him. And also the prophecies of the holy prophets from the beginning even down to the commencement of the reign of Zedekiah. Brass Plates Laban Nephi kills Laban reasons for getting the brass plates symbolism in Nephi meeting Labans sword Val Larsen Why did Nephi kill Laban.

Wherefore he said unto him. Laban and Lehi had a shared ancestry and the brass plates contained not only the Jewish scriptures but also Lehis genealogy. 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.

What was Labans response. Someone must have written on the plates of brass presumbly prophets of assigned scribes. And a genealogy of Lehis and Labans forefathers 1 Ne 516 1 Ne 33 The record was engraved on plates made of brass 1 Ne 33 Laban kept the plates at his house 1 Ne 34 Laban was keeper of the records because he was a descendant of Joseph 1 Ne 516.

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. Zoram followed Nephi to outside the gates of Jerusalem. 28062010 By Michael R.

Mormon God had used his pillar-of-fire card to free Moses and also burned his part-the-sea card so he really was out of options. And also many prophecies which have. Laban was presumably the keeper of the plates until then.

He went to Laban and tried to make the case for having the plates. If Laban had been allowed to live he would have raised a posse and pursued Nephi into the wilderness. Have Nephi put on Labans cape At the treasury Nephi spoke like Laban and told Labans servant Zoram to bring the brass plates and follow him.

20112017 At the time Zedekiah of course was king not a prophet nor was Laban though his genealogy as was Lehis was recorded on the Brass Plates. Shorter excerpts from the Brass Plates such as the Ten Commandments were also quoted by other writers. The contained much of what we know as the Old Testament from the creation to Jeremia maybe even more than is in the OT.

Zedekiah was a king not a prophet and not a very righteous king at that. 19062011 Nephi then dressed in Labans clothing and went to Labans treasury. Because the tribes of Joseph lived in the northern Israelite kingdom called Israel not the southern Israelite kingdom called Judah it is likely that the plates of brass had many northern Israelite texts in them19.

Laban had the record of the Jews. It is likely that Laban held the plates in some official capacity and kept them in his treasury evidently because of their great value. Then you ask why did Laban have them rather than King Zedekaih.

These plates were in the possession of. I Nephi 3 3 For behold Laban hath the record of the Jews and also a genealogy of my forefathers and they are engraven upon plates of brass. 24012012 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.

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. Why did Laban have Jewish scripture on brass plates when the convention for documents in the Middle East was scrolls not plates. 20062017 And he desired of Laban the records which were engraven upon the plates of brass which contained the genealogy of my father.

Of course Laban was not a prophet either but Labans genealogy as was Lehis was recorded on the Brass Plates. Facts about the plates. 21012008 Reasons for the Nephites to Have the Brass Plates.

We know very little about Laban but he could have held the plates in some official capacity. Ash Jun 28 2010 530am MDT While encamped in the Valley of Lemuel Lehi sent his sons back to Jerusalem to obtain their own religious record the plates of brass.

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