Manasseh

1769 BC/1536 BC -   Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	, Manasseh
  Birth	1769 BC/1536 BC
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I39462	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Joseph ,   b. 1801 BC/1792 BC   d. 1691 BC/1536 BC
  Mother	Asenath
  Family ID	F21648	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Lehi is from the Tribe of Manassah. Ishmael, his companion, is of the tribe of Ephraim. Native people descendants of Abraham - Church News 2 August 1997 Old Testament prophets Jacob and Joseph are the fathers of Natives of the Americas, said Jeffrey L. Simons, who with Larry EchoHawk presented the subject of "Roots of LDS Views Toward Native Americans." "Joseph and Judah, two of the sons of Israel, are the forefathers of the people who came to this continent," said Brother Simons. "That connection is a very important connection to be made." He said that some of the first Europeans who came to the Americas "thought that the native people were descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. They didn't know that they were really the descendants of Lehi, but the significance of that is that connections were being made to these families of Abrahamic lineage." He said that Lehi is a descendant of Manassah, son of Joseph, but his sons married descendants of Ephraim, another son of Joseph. Mulek, a figure introduced later in the Book of Mormon, is a descendant of King Zedekiah, a descendant of Judah. After the Savior's visit, the population became a mixture of all the seed of these people. "In other words, today the Native Americans are a mixture of the seed of all these people. There are not any pure strains." As such, he said, the blessings of the patriarchs apply to all.