Strength to Colonize the New World

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Lehi’s people were strengthened both spiritually and physically as they wandered in the wilderness. Through their hardships they were prepared to establish a civilization in the new world. Nephi comments that the Lord “did straiten [the Israelites] in the wilderness with his rod” (1 Nephi 17:41). Certainly the eight years in the deserts of the Arabian peninsula did much to prepare Lehi’s family.

Book of Mormon Student Manual (1996 Edition)

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