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Critics claim another possible source of the Book of Mormon is the Reverend Ethan Smith’s work titled, “View of the Hebrews.” What idea does the critics claim Joseph Smith took from Ethan Smith?

     a.      Laman and Lemuel were rebellious

     b.      The American Indians roots originated in the holy land

     c.       Nephi did in fact steal the brass plates
     d.      Hagoth did leave with Nephites 0n a ship, but not to the Islands of the Pacific, but rather to Iceland.

Yesterday’s answer:

(C)   Their Danish accents

For many European Saints, the first experiences with oxen were frustrating. Mads Christensen recalls: “The oxen were not trained to pull wagons and knew nothing about ‘gee’ [turn right] and ‘haw’ [turn left] and less about our Danish talk. We had to tie long ropes to the heads of the leader oxen of each team to prevent them from taking their own course. Occasionally some ox would start to bellow and cause a stampeded or panic of fear, and away they would run despite our holding tight to their ropes.”

Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, Their Faces Toward Zion (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1996), 115.