Ether 1 – 2
I had never considered the fact that the Promised Land had not been inhabited since the flood. This would make it all the more necessary that the people should bring all their domestic animals and plants with them to survive. The warnings to Lehi and the Brother of Jared regarding the character of the land and the fact that the inhabitants must serve the Lord or be destroyed are intended to serve as a warning to the Gentiles in our day that this is still the case in this land. The people in the barges must have come out sometimes when the sea was calm through the door by which they entered their ships – if they never go to open those doors they would have had a years worth of waste to carry in their ships. They must have had away to dispose of that.