Has the cave been identified where Nephi and his brothers hid?

Thomas R. Valletta

Some have claimed that the Khirbet Beit Lei tomb was the brothers’ temporary hiding place because of some inscriptions found in the cave. However, according to Professor Dana M. Pike of Brigham Young University, “There is no real basis for such a claim. In addition to the obvious challenges of just reading and dating the inscriptions and the linguistic challenge of relating the name Beit Lei with the name Lehi, this burial chamber seems much too distant from Jerusalem to be a reasonable candidate for the brothers’ hiding place” (“Israelite Inscriptions from the Time of Jeremiah and Lehi,” 220).

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