Why would this story be included in the Book of Mormon?
Why was it so important to go and get the brass plates? Why were the records so important that Nephi was commanded to kill Laban for them?
Why is it better for one man to die than for an entire nation to perish?
Nephi and his brothers had already tried to get the plates and had almost been killed, and they had even been robbed. Laban was a man with a lot of power and a lot of greed.
This shows several things, like how important records are. Things like journals, family history, and a copy of the law, or what would be considered the scriptures and history books to us today, are so important. We need these things so we can learn and grow and know where we came from.
There is another story in the Book of Mormon about another group of people who left Jerusalem who didn't have any records, and they killed themselves off, since they had no records. Their language changed dramatically, they had no written records, and their laws and standards and morals disintegrated, causing them to kill themselves off. You can find and read this story Here in the Book of Ether, a book in the Book of Mormon.
This also shows how God will always provide a way to keep the commandments He has given us. It was scary! It was dangerous! They had to keep trying, but they finally did accomplish what God had commanded them to do!
One thing that really stuck out to me was that Nephi remembered the story of Moses, and he remembered how Moses had been enabled to keep the commandments and do miraculous things to accomplish what The Lord wanted him to do, and Nephi knew that the same would apply to him, and he had learned all this from the scriptures.
What did you learn from this story? Why do you think God commanded Nephi to kill Laban? How would you have felt if you were Nephi?
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