After leaving their home in Jerusalem, Lehi’s family lived in the valley of Lemuel (see 1 Nephi 2:10). The reader is now alerted that several years have passed. “After an extended narrative consisting of his father’s dream, his own vision, and his exposition to his brothers … Nephi must now return to his family’s mundane travel narrative. As a transitional device, he repeats the marker he has used earlier: these things were done ‘as my father dwelt in a tent in the valley which he called Lemuel’” (Gardner, Second Witness, 1:269).