“Again Nephi went into the mountain (for us, the mountain of the Lord, the temple) to commune with God and receive revelation. ‘Thou shalt construct a ship.’ The Lord preempted Nephi’s surprise by saying, in effect, I already know how you have never constructed a ship before and you don’t know how—‘after the manner which I shall show thee.’ In other words, the Lord was going to tell Nephi step-by-step how to do it” (Ogden and Skinner, Book of Mormon, 1:75).