What is the significance of Ishmael’s daughter and her mother pleading for Nephi?

Thomas R. Valletta

“The mother and one of the daughters pleaded with them. This is a thing that no Arab under any circumstance can resist. If a mother or daughter from another tribe pleads, you are under obligation—even if it is your worst enemy. It’s the chivalric oath. The rules of chivalry in the Middle Ages were adopted during the Crusades and taken back [to Europe] in the time of Edward I. They were taken from the Arabs” (Nibley, Teachings of the Book of Mormon, 1:169).

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