“Essentially every event or person in the Book of Mormon may well remind us of another event or person; the book is like a beautifully composed symphony with repeated themes and motifs. … Directed or lighted by objects requiring faith for their operation, Nephi’s ship and the Jaredite barges are connected with Noah’s ark in being types of rebirth and baptism (1 Peter 3:20–21); further, the Jaredite vessels ‘were tight like unto the ark of Noah’ (Ether 6:7). They all bring the occupants through the water into a new life, representing in the process the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ (Colossians 2:12)” (Rust, Feasting on the Word, 196–206).