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Or. Welcome to talking scripture. I'm Mike and I'm Bryce and today we're going to

talk about Mosiah 7 through 10. Bryce this really introduces or it's kind of like a

switch point we're going to get ready for a

Benadai. Yes the transition from King Benjamin to King Noah and how that whole

story came about. And so this is a big flashback that's happening.

There were two major Nephite migrations, a little bit of history,

two major Nephite migrations.

The first one occurred in 2nd Nephy Chapter 5

when Nephai gathers his followers and leaves his brethren.

And they must not have gone very far because they remained in the land of Nephi.

But the second migration occurs under King Mosiah the first which was Benjamin's dad.

Apparently they needed to leave the area and they went north and discovered

Zarahamla and the people living in a Zarahemla which were the mulekites. Eventually King, Mosiah is crowned

king over all of those people. But they leave the land of Nephi, which is going to be very

confusing for the rest of the Book of Mormon, that the Nephites don't live in the land of Nephi,

the Lamanites do.

But shortly after they leave the land of Nephi and find Zarahamla, a group of Nephi

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