Echoing

A great way to learn scriptures is using the technique call "echoing".  You take a Bible verse, and then find a similar one in the Book of Mormon. The concept in the verses, sound one to another- expanding scriptural, spiritual insight.


17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.
Matthew 1:

“14 And it came to pass that my father, Lehi, also found upon the plates of brass a genealogy of his fathers; wherefore he knew that he was a descendant of Joseph; yea, even that Joseph who was the son of Jacob, who was sold into Egypt, and who was preserved by the hand of the Lord, that he might preserve his father, Jacob, and all his household from perishing with famine.
15 And they were also led out of captivity and out of the land of Egypt, by that same God who had preserved them.
16 And thus my father, Lehi, did discover the genealogy of his fathers. And Laban also was a descendant of Joseph, wherefore he and his fathers had kept the records.”
1 Nephi 5:

Notice two connected concepts- "from the carrying away into" and "led out of captivity" preserved for his purposes.