Did you know we are all related to Noah and his 3 sons Shem, Ham and Japeth. they were the only survivors of the great flood. Here is some interesting reading about them: The following series of scriptures from the Holy Bible (King James Version) give the genealogies from Adam through Abraham and Jacob’s lineage to Joseph and Manasseh. It was from this lineage that Lehi found he was a descendant. 1 ADAM, Sheth, Enosh, 2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, 3 Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech, 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 1 Chronicles 1:1 – 4 10 ¶ These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: 12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: 16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: 20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Genesis 11:10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 This genealogy is repeated and extended by this passage in First Chronicles to include the descendants of Abraham down to the sons of Joseph of Egypt. 24 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah [Salah], 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu, 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah, 27 Abram; the same is Abraham. 28 The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael. 34 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel. 1 Chronicles 1:24-28, 34 1 THESE are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, 2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 1 Chronicles 2:1 - 2 20 ¶ And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him. Genesis 46:20 The biblical genealogical source above is corroborated by the following quote from the works of Josephus. Shem had five sons who established the lineages of the Persians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syrians, and Lydians in the Mediterranean region. Shem’s great‐grandson, Heber is from whom the name “Hebrews” originated. Shem, the third son of Noah, had five sons, who inhabited the land that began at Euphrates, and reached to the Indian Ocean. They [the sons] were the founders of the lineages of the Persians (Elam), Assyrians (Ashur), Chaldeans (Arphaxad), Syrians (Aram), Lydians (Laud) according to Josephus. Sala was the son of Arphaxad; and his son was Heber, from whom they originally called the Jews Hebrews. Heber begat Joctan and Phaled... I will now treat of the Hebrews. The son of Phalg, whose father was Heber, was Ragau; whose son was Serug, to whom was born Nahor; his son was Terah, who was the father of Abram (Abraham), who accordingly was the tenth from Noah, ... Ref 5 There exists an unbroken genealogical lineage from Adam to Joseph’s sons Manasseh and Ephraim as outlined in the Bible and this additional ancient text. Thus, Lehi’s lineage through Jacob, Joseph and Manasseh indicates that he was of the lineage that descended from Noah’s son Shem. Noah had three sons, Ham, Shem, and Japheth from whom all the world’s peoples descended after the great flood according to scripture. From these three brothers and their wives sprang the world’s three primary lineages or “supergroups” which in genetic terms are African, European, and Asian. Following is a brief synopsis of what is known of each of these three primary lineages from Noah’s sons. - 10 - Establishing Book of Mormon Lineages - 11 - Shem’s Lineage From the Bible Dictionary we learn of Shem’s descendants. Shem. Name. Son of Noah (Gen. 5:29–32; 6:10; 7:13; 8:16; 9:26; Moses 8:12); his descendants (Gen. 10:21–31; 11:10–32; 1 Chr. 1:17; Luke 3:36). Shem was the tradi-tional ancestor of the Shemitic or Semitic races, i.e., a group of kindred nations, which includes the Arabs, the Hebrews and Phoenicians, the Aramaeans or Syrians, the Babylonians and Assyrians. The languages spoken by these various nations were closely related, and were known as the Semitic languages. In latter-day revelation Shem is referred to as "the great high priest" (D&C 138:41). LDS Bible Dictionary: Shem Shem was the “patriarch” of the priestly lineage through which came Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and Manasseh, which was Lehiʹs ancestral lineage. This is the reason Shem is referred to as “the great high priest” (D&C 138:41). These are the ancestors of the European lineages. Genesis 9:26 states: “blessed be the Lord God of Shem.” It is through Shem’s priestly lineage that the Lord God would bless his children. Through Shem’s lineage came Judaism, Early Christianity, the Patriarchs, and Jesus Christ. Thus Lehi descended from Shem, which was a lineage that in today’s genetic terms is “European.” This is about all we can deduce about Lehi’s genetic heritage, the genealogical record of which was paternal in nature. Ham’s Lineage Ham was married to Egyptus and was cursed by his father, Noah. It is through this lineage that the curse of Cain was preserved through the flood. After the flood, Ham and his descendents inherited the land of Egypt. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. … 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. Genesis 9:22, 25 - 27 21 Now this king of Egypt was a descendant from the loins of Ham, and was a partaker of the blood of the Canaanites by birth. 22 From this descent sprang all the Egyptians, and thus the blood of the Canaanites was preserved in the land. 23 The land of Egypt being first discovered by a woman, who was the daughter of Ham, and the daughter of Egyptus, which in the Chaldean signifies Egypt, which signifies that which is forbidden; 24 When this woman discovered the land it was under water, who afterward settled her sons in it; and thus, from Ham, sprang that race which preserved the curse in the land. 25 Now the first government of Egypt was established by Pharaoh, the eldest son of Egyptus, the daughter of Ham, and it was after the manner of the government of Ham, which was patriarchal. PoGP Abraham 1:21 - 25 The children of Ham possessed the land from Syria and Amanus, and the mountains of Libanus; seizing upon all that was on its sea-coasts, and as far as the ocean, and keeping it as their own. Some indeed of its names are utterly vanished away; others of them being changed, and another sound given them, are hardly to be discovered; yet a few there are which have kept their denominations entire: for of the four sons of Ham, time has not at all hurt the name of Chus; for the Ethiopians, over whom he reigned, are seven at this day, both by themselves and by all men in Asia, called Chusites. The memory also of the Mesraites is preserved in their name; for all we who inhabit the country [of Judea,] call Egypt Mestre, and the Egyptians Mestreans. …But the name it has now, has been by change given it from one of the sons of Mestraim, who was called Lybyos. We will inform you presently what has been the occasion why it has been called Africa also. Canaan, the fourth son of Ham, inhabited the country now called Judea, and called it from his own name Canaan. …Nimrod, the son of Chus, stayed and tyrannized at Babylon, as we have already informed you. Now all the Rediscovering the Book of Mormon Remnant through DNA children of Mesraim, being eight in number, possessed the country from Gaza to Egypt, though it possessed the name of one only the Philistim, for the Greeks call part of that country Palestine. Ref 5 The Book of Mormon refers to Lehi’s group as being a “white” and “delightsome” people (1 Nephi 13:15, 2 Nephi 5:21, 3 Nephi 2:15), indicating their lineage did not carry the Canaanite bloodlines and therefore are most certainly not of the genetically referred to African or Negroid descent. Neither Lehi’s ancestors nor descendants are considered to be among this lineage. Japheth’s Lineage From the Bible Dictionary we find the following. Japheth. Eldest son of Noah (Moses 8:12; cf. Gen. 5:32; 6:10; 7:13; 9:18, 23); his blessing (Gen. 9:27). His descendants were dispersed over the European coasts of the Mediterranean and the districts adjoining the Black and Caspian seas (Gen. 10:1–5, 21; 1 Chr. 1:4–5), forming what is now called the Indo-European family of nations. Bible Dictionary: Japheth The Black Sea separates Eastern Europe from western Asia and the Caspian Sea lies further east. These two seas are a part of what is considered as Asia, the largest and most populous continent on earth. Japhet the son of Noah, had seven sons. They inhabited so, that beginning at the mountains Taurus and Amanus, they proceeded along Asia, as far as the river Tanais, and along Europe to Cadiz. Ref 5 Japheth’s lineage was prophesied to be “enlarged” by Genesis 9:27. 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. Genesis 9:27 According to Josephus, lineages sprin‐ging from Japheth’s seven sons included the Galatians (Gomer), Magogites (Magog), Gre‐cians (Javan), Medes (Madai), Iberes (Thobel), Cappadocians (Mosoch), and Thracians (Thiras). Many are the countries that had the children of Japhet for their inhabitants. Ref 5 One of the three sons of Gomer, named Thrugramma began a lineage that was called “Thrugrammeans, who, as the Greeks resolved, were named Phrygians.” Ref 5 To recap, the Hebrew lineages stem from Noah’s son Shem, who is thought to have been the carrier for the Caucasian lineages after the Flood. Ham and his wife, Egyptus, were the founding couple of the African or Egyptian peoples, and Japheth’s family headed the Asian lineages. Ishmael’s lineage Lehi sent his sons back to Jerusalem to the head of another family, named Ishmael. He was the father of five daughters that Lehi wanted for his sons so that they could marry according to their covenants. Ishmael also had married sons, (1 Nephi 7:6) as apparently two of his sons already had families of their own. 6 And it came to pass that as we journeyed in the wilderness, behold Laman and Lemuel, and two of the daughters of Ishmael, and the two sons of Ishmael and their families, did rebel against us; yea, against me, Nephi, and Sam, and their father, Ishmael, and his wife, and his three other daughters. BoM 1 Nephi 7:6 Ishmael is thought to have been of the lineage of Shem through Ephraim, according to Brigham Young. The prophet Joseph informed us that the record of Lehi was contained on the 116 pages that were first translated and subsequently stolen and of which an abridgement is given us in the first Book of Nephi, which is the record of Nephi individually. He [Lehi] himself being of the lineage of Manasseh; but that Ishmael was of the lineage of Ephraim, and that his sons married into Lehi’s family, and Lehi’s sons - 12 - Establishing Book of Mormon Lineages - 13 - married Ishmael’s daughters, thus fulfilling the words of Jacob upon Ephraim and Manasseh in the 48th Chapter of Genesis, which says: “and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the land.” Thus these descendants of Manasseh and Ephraim grew together upon this American continent, with a sprinkling from the house of Judah, from Mulek descended, who left Jerusalem eleven years after Lehi, and found the colony afterwards known as Zarahemla and found by Mosiah, -- thus making a combination, an intermixture of Ephraim and Manasseh with the remnants of Judah, and for aught we know, the remnants of some other tribes that might have accompanied Mulek. Ref 6 That Ishmael was also a worthy priest‐hood holder, and thus of the patriarchal order of the lineage of Shem, is evident by the ritual ordinance performed as his family united with Lehi’s. 22 …And after I and my brethren and all the house of Ishmael had come down unto the tent of my father [Lehi], they did give thanks unto the Lord their God; and they did offer sacrifice and burnt offerings unto him. BoM 1 Nephi 7:22
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