Why did the people of King Benjamin offer sacrifice according to the law of Moses?

Thomas R. Valletta

“While ‘sacrifice and burnt offerings according to the law of Moses’ were made (Mosiah 2:3), they were made on a daily basis (Mosiah 13:30). They were ‘a type and a shadow of things [of Christ] which are to come’ (Mosiah 13:10), and also of thanksgiving for their blessings (Mosiah 2:4, compare Leviticus 7:12). It should also be mentioned that the Nephites operated under the Melchizedek priesthood for ‘the law hath become dead’ unto them. Nevertheless, they kept it until Christ had fulfilled the law (2 Nephi 25:24–25)” (Nyman, These Records Are True, 197).

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