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* Why were three days sufficient?  Is this symbolic of the three days Christ spent without his body?
 
* Why were three days sufficient?  Is this symbolic of the three days Christ spent without his body?
 
* How many tents did Lehi pitch in the valley?  Was it just his own or did he make sure everyone set up their tents?
 
* How many tents did Lehi pitch in the valley?  Was it just his own or did he make sure everyone set up their tents?
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===Verse 7===
 
* Did Lehi ever participate in animal sacrifice?  Or was he spared from that responsibility because he held the Melchizedek priesthood?  Did his descendants likewise not practice this aspect of the law of Moses, because none of them were descendants of Aaron?
 
* Did Lehi ever participate in animal sacrifice?  Or was he spared from that responsibility because he held the Melchizedek priesthood?  Did his descendants likewise not practice this aspect of the law of Moses, because none of them were descendants of Aaron?
  

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Verse 6

  • Why were three days sufficient? Is this symbolic of the three days Christ spent without his body?
  • How many tents did Lehi pitch in the valley? Was it just his own or did he make sure everyone set up their tents?

Verse 7

  • Did Lehi ever participate in animal sacrifice? Or was he spared from that responsibility because he held the Melchizedek priesthood? Did his descendants likewise not practice this aspect of the law of Moses, because none of them were descendants of Aaron?

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Verse 7

  • Joseph Smith taught that "all the prophets had the Melchizedek Priesthood and were ordained by God himself" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith 180-81." Cited in Robert Millet, “The Holy Order of God”, in “Alma, the Testimony of the Word", ed. by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate.



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