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*[http://scriptures.lds.org/en/1_ne/5/9#9 1 Nephi 5:9]
*[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/5?lang=eng&id=9#p8 1 Nephi 5:9]
:When Lehi's sons return from Jerusalem, Lehi's family gives thanks and offers sacrifices.
:And it came to pass that they did rejoice exceedingly, and did offer sacrifice and burnt offerings unto the Lord; and they gave thanks unto the God of Israel.
 
*[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/2?lang=eng&id=1,3 Mosiah 2:1,3]
:1) And it came to pass that after Mosiah had done as his father had commanded him, and had made a proclamation throughout all the land, that the people gathered themselves together throughout all the land, that they might go up to the temple to hear the words which king Benjamin should speak unto them.
:3) And they also took of the firstlings of their flocks, that they might offer sacrifice and burnt offerings according to the law of Moses;


*James Tabor, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svCkRq9gR1U "Lost in Translation The Jerusalem Temple as a Den of Ravenous Wild Beasts!"], YouTube, 5 Jun 2024
*James Tabor, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svCkRq9gR1U "Lost in Translation The Jerusalem Temple as a Den of Ravenous Wild Beasts!"], YouTube, 5 Jun 2024

Latest revision as of 14:18, 24 June 2024

And it came to pass that they did rejoice exceedingly, and did offer sacrifice and burnt offerings unto the Lord; and they gave thanks unto the God of Israel.
1) And it came to pass that after Mosiah had done as his father had commanded him, and had made a proclamation throughout all the land, that the people gathered themselves together throughout all the land, that they might go up to the temple to hear the words which king Benjamin should speak unto them.
3) And they also took of the firstlings of their flocks, that they might offer sacrifice and burnt offerings according to the law of Moses;
James Tabor argues that animal sacrifices were never supposed to have been a part of the temple practice. (He doesn't say exactly when he thinks they were introduced, but implicitly, some time before Jeremiah and after the dedication of the temple by Solomon.)

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