How did Lehi’s blessing make it possible for Laman’s and Lemuel’s children to avoid the punishment of their parents?

Thomas R. Valletta

“Lehi blessed the posterity of both Laman and Lemuel that if they came to be cursed in the future because they followed the teachings of their parents, the curse would be taken from them and ‘answered upon the heads of [their] parents’ (4:6). Lehi based this blessing on the doctrine that children who are brought up in the way they should go would ‘not depart from it’ (v. 5), but because Laman and Lemuel had not taught their children correctly, their sins will be upon their heads” (Nyman, “Come to Understanding and Learn Doctrine,” 22).

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