Concerning Nephi's wrongdoings, Laman and Lemuel complain at Nahom that "he worketh many things by his cunning arts, that he may deceive our eyes . . . he has thought to make himself a king and a ruler over us" (1 Nephi 16:38) In a future record of Zeniff, we find that one of the major traditions of the Lamanites that caused them to hate the Nephites, and which was passed down through generations, was that Nephi "took the lead of their journey in the wilderness" (Mosiah 10:13). In Laman's complaint, he used the past tense ("he has thought") showing that this event had, at least in part, already taken place by the time they tarried at Nahom. [George Potter and Richard Wellington, Discovering the Lehi-Nephi Trail, Unpublished Manuscript, 2000, p. 146]