- Note: During the thousand year history of Lehi and his descendants, there are six accounts of a Lehi type exodus. These accounts illustrate how the Lord tells His servants to take their people and "depart into the wilderness." In each exodus account, the righteous people leave their prideful, power-seeking brethren who have sinned against light and knowledge and have brought themselves under condemnation.
- These examples are a type for a latter-day exodus, as prophesied by Isaiah. (2 Nephi 8:10-11, 16:12, 20:20-21, 21:15-16). The other five exodus accounts are found in 2 Nephi 5:5, Omni 1:13, Mosiah 18:34, 22:11, and Alma 27:11-4. A seventh took place in 2,200 BC (Ether 1:39-42)
Our family consisted of my father Lehi, my mother Sariah, my older brothers, Laman, Lemuel and Sam, and myself. We traveled south into the wilderness, down the shoreline of the Red Sea.
After traveling three days, we pitched our tents in a valley near a river. Here my father built an altar of stones, made an offering and gave thanks to the Lord.
The valley where we camped was at the mouth of the river that flowed into the Red Sea. My father named the river after Laman
