Endowment Narratives in the Book of Mormon, Part 2b -- The (second half of the) Big Picture

This post will continue detailing five additional examples of the "endowment pattern" I am describing in this series. By the end of this post, I hope you will be convinced that there is a pattern. Future posts will detail the deeper meaning of the pattern.  

Please read part 1 and part 2a if you haven't already. I will discuss the significance and possible symbolic significance of each symbol in future posts. I will also outline how this pattern fits a pattern we also see in the accounts of Adam and Eve, Abraham, and Moses.

As a side note -- The first two examples given below are variants of the main pattern. I'll explain more about this in a future post. I believe there is a purpose for these stories, and the contrast between the two accounts helps teach an important spiritual lessons. This is a technique frequently employed by Mormon, as detailed in a recent series of posts (here, here, and here).

Let's get into the details for the five additional examples:

Limhi

	Detail	Limhi (variant account -- no prophet among them)
1	Warned to depart	By Gideon and a consensus of the people (Mosiah 22: 1, 3)
2	Escaping from secret combinations/plan to murder	"Bondage by the sword" (Mosiah 22:2)
3	Bring all who would "hearken"/listen	The people prosper by hearkening to Gideon (Mosiah 22:3,9)
4	Pass through a wilderness	Mosiah 22:2, 6, 8, 11-13
5	"Many days"	Mosiah 22:13
6	Tents	Mosiah 22:2
7	Animals	Mosiah 22:2, 6, 8, 10, 11
8	Inherit a new land	Joined Mosiah's people (Mosiah 22:13)
9	New names	---
10	Obedience to the commandments of God	---
11	Abundance/Prosper	---
12	Led by a righteous patriarch/king/royal family member	No prophet among them -- their king was a good man but not a prophet

Alma-1

	Detail	Alma-1 (double pattern)	second pattern (escaping Amulon)
1	Warned to depart	Mosiah 23:1	Mosiah 24:13
2	Escaping from secret combinations/plan to murder	"wicked priests of King Noah would come upon them" (Mosiah 23:1)	"persecution" Mosiah 24:8, see also verse 11
3	Bring all who would "hearken"/listen	Mosiah 18:3	---
4	Pass through a wilderness	Mosiah 23:1	Mosiah 24:20
5	"Many days"	"eight days' journey" (Mosiah 23:3)	"all day" Mosiah 24:20
6	Tents	Mosiah 23:5	Mosiah 24:20
7	Animals	Mosiah 23:1	Mosiah 24:18
8	Inherit a new land	Mosiah 23:4	"Valley of Alma" Mosiah 24:20
9	New names	(see Mosiah 18:10)	Mosiah 24:20
10	Obedience to the commandments of God	Mosiah 23:18	---
11	Abundance/Prosper	Mosiah 23:19	---
12	Led by a righteous patriarch/king/royal family member	Alma-1 refused to be their king	Alma-1 refused to be their king

Additional Notes: There is a third mini-iteration of the pattern when Alma is warned by the Lord that the enemy is approaching and they "took their journey into the wilderness" for twelve days and traveled to Zarahemla

Anti-Nephi-Lehi

	Detail	Anti-Nephi Lehi
1	Warned to depart	Alma 27:11-12
2	Escaping from secret combinations/plan to murder	Alma 27:2
3	Bring all who would "hearken"/listen	** (see Alma 27:14)
4	Pass through a wilderness	Alma 27:14
5	"Many days"	implied in Alma 27:15-25
6	Tents	Alma 27:25
7	Animals	Alma 27:14
8	Inherit a new land	Alma 27:22, 24
9	New names	"they were called by the Nephites the people of Ammon; therefore they were distinguished by that name ever after." (Alma 27:26)
10	Obedience to the commandments of God	"perfectly honest and upright in all things" (Alma 27:27)
11	Abundance/Prosper	"a highly favored people of the Lord" (Alma 27:30)
12	Led by a righteous patriarch/king/royal family member	Lamoni -- ANL; also Ammon son of Mosiah

Jared

	Detail	Jared
1	Warned to depart	The Lord commands them to gather and depart in Ether 1:40-41
2	Escaping from secret combinations/plan to murder	N/A (but the Lord was confounding and scattering the people because of the Tower of Babel
3	Bring all who would "hearken"/listen	Families and "friends" (Ether 1:37)
4	Pass through a wilderness	"the Lord commanded them that they should go forth into the wilderness, yea, into that quarter where there never had man been." (Ether 2:5)
5	"Many days"	four years (Ether 2:13-14)
6	Tents	Ether 2:13
7	Animals	"of every kind" Ether 1:41; 6:4
8	Inherit a new land	Ether 1:38, 42; 2:7-12, 15;
9	New names	---
10	Obedience to the commandments of God	Ether 6:17
11	Abundance/Prosper	Ether 6:28
12	Led by a righteous patriarch/king/royal family member	First prophet is BoJ; first king is his son Orihah

Additional notes: They are commanded to gather animals and grain "of every kind" (Ether 1:; see also Ether 2:3 "all manner of that which was upon the face of the land, seeds of every kind."

Omer

	Detail	Omer - Emer -- Corinatumr
1	Warned to depart	Ether 9:3
2	Escaping from secret combinations/plan to murder	Ether 9:1, 5
3	Bring all who would "hearken"/listen	"all his household but Jared" (Ether 9:3)
4	Pass through a wilderness	Shim and Ablom; no definite wilderness
5	"Many days"	Ether 9:3
6	Tents	Ether 9:3
7	Animals	Ether 9:17-18
8	Inherit a new land	"a place which was called Ablom" (Ether 9:3)
9	New names	---
10	Obedience to the commandments of God	Ether 9:21
11	Abundance/Prosper	"All manner of ..." Ether 9:17-19; "Exceedingly rich" Ether 9:16
12	Led by a righteous patriarch/king/royal family member	Omer -- Emer -- Coriantumr

Conclusion of this part

Between this post and part 2a, we have detailed eight examples of this same pattern. I hope you will take the time to read each account in this set of examples and notice how tight the pattern is.  It seems clear to me that the author of each of these accounts was intending to show that each of these groups were embarking on a new path and playing the role of Adam and Eve on their journey to a new land.

As I stated above, in the next part I'll begin detailing what these symbols mean and how they fit into a temple/covenant context.