They are said to descend from Nephi, who the book places leaving Jerusalem for the Americas around 600 BC.
The Nephites are described as descendants of Nephi, one of the sons of Lehi, a prophet who, according to the narrative, migrated from Jerusalem to the Americas around 600 BC.
The Nephites are said to be descendants of Nephi, a prophet who migrated from Jerusalem to the Americas around 600 BC.
We see this in names like Yerushalem in Hebrew to Jerusalem in English and Amorah in Hebrew and "Gomorrah" in English.Sounds formed in the same region of the mouth are sometimes exchanged one for another.
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.