Nephi’s response to his brother’s objections constitute a major purpose of the Book of Mormon and the other books that he was shown that would come forth among the Gentile—to “establish the truth of the first (Bible)” (1 Nephi 13: 39–40), or to prove “to the world that the holy scriptures are true” (D&C 20:11). He reviews the miraculous events of the Lord leading the children of Israel out of the hands of the Egyptians (v. 23). His review, taken from the plates of brass, serves as a second witness to the following biblical events that are often watered down or explained away in today’s sophisticated world.
Moses Led Israel out of Egypt
7 And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. [Exodus 3:7–8]