Joseph, Jacob’s favorite son and Lehi’s ancestor, also famously has prophetic dreams and interprets the dreams of others. ( Genesis 31:3-13) Note that Jacob suffers afflictions for following his dreams - Laban is an unfair taskmaster and father-in-law on several levels and is quite angry when Jacob leaves unannounced - but receives a dream of his own telling him to let Jacob leave in peace. ( Genesis 28:10-22)Īfter serving Laban for 20 years, Jacob receives another dream, telling him to take his family and his possessions and go back to his promised land, Canaan. He meets God face to face at an entrance or doorway at the top of the ramp, and God covenants with him to give him land and bless his posterity. Jacob, on his way to Haran to find a wife, has a dream of a ramp or stairway ascending to heaven, with angels coming and going. Second, we see that both Jacob and Joseph - of whom Lehi is a descendant - had prophetic dreams. Nephi likely very much had this verse in mind, since within the first (original divisions) chapter of his book, he has Lehi being “carried away in a vision” and seeing God ( 1 Nephi 1:7-15) and then has God speak to him in a dream (cited above). So, what do the five books of Moses have to say about dreams and those who receive them? Four things, really.įirst, we have this pronouncement by God to Moses, rebuking Aaron and Miriam who claimed that God had spoken to them:Īnd he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. …they did contain the five books of Moses, which gave an account of the creation of the world, and also of Adam and Eve, who were our first parents and also a record of the Jews from the beginning, even down to the commencement of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah and also the prophecies of the holy prophets, from the beginning, even down to the commencement of the reign of Zedekiah and also many prophecies which have been spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah.Īnd it came to pass that my father, Lehi, also found upon the plates of brass a genealogy of his fathers wherefore he knew that he was a descendant of Joseph, yea, even that Joseph who was the son of Jacob… (1 Nephi 5:11-14) We know that Nephi had the brass plates, and that Part of making that case is to portray Lehi himself as a true prophet of God, something Laman and Lemuel repeatedly disputed.įor behold, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto my father, yeah, even in a dream….
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Book of Mormon scholars (starting with Noel Reynolds, I believe) have long pointed out that Nephi used his small plates - written 30 to 40 years after leaving Jerusalem - to make his case to be Lehi’s rightful heir, both temporally and spiritually (see my own observations here).