{"id":1354,"date":"2008-06-12T14:07:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T21:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2008-06-12T14:08:37","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T21:08:37","slug":"what-about-the-samites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2008\/06\/12\/what-about-the-samites\/","title":{"rendered":"What about the Samites?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Book of Mormon prophet Jacob popularized the terms Nephites and Lamanites to refer to the two Book of Mormon peoples, various names were used to refer to the peoples.<\/p>\n<p>>&#8221;Now the people which were not Lamanites were Nephites; nevertheless, they were called Nephites, Jacobites, Josephites, Zoramites, Lamanites, Lemuelites, and Ishmaelites.&#8221; (Jacob 1:13)<\/p>\n<p>So why isn&#8217;t Sam listed? Jacob and Joseph are. Laman and Lemuel are. All of Nephi&#8217;s brothers are except for Sam.<\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Book of Mormon prophet Jacob popularized the terms Nephites and Lamanites to refer to the two Book of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2008\/06\/12\/what-about-the-samites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What about the Samites?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-mormon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What about the Samites?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2008\/06\/12\/what-about-the-samites\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What about the Samites?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Before the Book of Mormon prophet Jacob popularized the terms Nephites and Lamanites to refer to the two Book of &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2008\/06\/12\/what-about-the-samites\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Our Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-06-12T21:07:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2008-06-12T21:08:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kim Siever\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kim Siever\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2008\/06\/12\/what-about-the-samites\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2008\/06\/12\/what-about-the-samites\/\",\"name\":\"What about the Samites?\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2008-06-12T21:07:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-06-12T21:08:37+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99e996edc89affe5206808d3f65869d1\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2008\/06\/12\/what-about-the-samites\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/\",\"name\":\"Our Thoughts\",\"description\":\"Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99e996edc89affe5206808d3f65869d1\",\"name\":\"Kim Siever\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/417c7b5f55d329bdd0f64ef4396831db?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/417c7b5f55d329bdd0f64ef4396831db?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kim Siever\"},\"description\":\"Queer Mormon poet with radical political views. 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