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when Lehi family left Jerusalem during the distruction.
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Yes that’s why I said “I thought they were already IN the promised land ???”

Theres only one “Promised land” that’s Israel..

There is no other for the Jews..

and if they left Jerusalem due to the destruction they would have gone as captives with the others to Babylon...

but they would not have gone in the time period that Smith claims...Smith should have read The History of the Hebrews and the Late War and those other books he had available in 1830 a bit closer..

Jerusalem was still standing in 600BC it was years later that it was destroyed..

when Lehi family left Jerusalem during the distruction.
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Was the Lehi family listed in any census in the Bible ???

Which tribe and family line are they suppose to be from ???

Getting back to the copy of the Old testament that this fictious family is suppose to have...

after the carrying away to Babylon they captives returned to rebuild Jerusalem..

Nehemiah was in charge of the building and he had Ezra read the only copy of “the book of the law” to the people ..

regular Jews didn’t have a copy of the laws of Moses and the prophets...they were too precious too holy..

they were kept in the Temple or with the Levites when they went into captivity..

but wherever the laws were there would only have been one or just a few...one in each synagogue maybe

When the Jews went to the synagogue they took turns reading out loud the words of Moses, Isaiah and the other prophets..

I don’t see God giving a regular Jew a copy of the laws and telling them to leave the promised land forever...

Israel was a reward to the Jews...a land set aside just for them..

for God to have banished this Lehi family (they sound Hawaiian) from the promised land, they must have displeased him..