As strange as it may seem my new insight is based on the word, "therefore." I looked up the definition and it means, "since the preceding is true" or "for that reason." It hit me that not only were Lehi and Sariah goodly parents, but one of the reasons they were goodly parents is that they taught their children.
It gave me an increased appreciation of the importance of parents teaching their children. Teaching what? Well, Nephi says he was taught in all the learning of his father. To me that means teaching everything from how to cut the lawn to how to develop a budget to how to pray and study the scriptures, because that's what goodly parents do.
by Jay Hildebrandt
I agree. This is what I have thought of this. Of all the things Nephi could have started with, he chose this which to me underlines even more the responsibility of parents to teach their children. So often this responsibility is relegated to others. While they can share in this responsibility, in the end it falls on the parents.
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