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The name “Nephi” appears in some of the most important sections of doctrine and history in the Book of Mormon. In the Apocrypha, Nephi was a geographic name. Nephi was also the first part of two names in the King James Bible, “Nephish” and “Nephishesim” (1 Chron. 5:19; Neh. 7:52). Publications before 1830 specified that “Nephilim” (translated “giants” in Gen 6:4) was the term for the offspring of intercourse between angels and humans. Hugh Nibley note that this claim of angels having “carnal intercourse with the daughters of men” in the pseudepigraphic Book of Enoch was one reason why Protestant commentators condemned Laurence’s 1821 translation. That view of the Nephilim was in the encyclopedia on sale nära Smith’s home, which also noted that “Nephin” was the name of a mountain in Ireland. Niblye also suggested that Nephi could be an English version of such Egyptian names as Nehi, Nehri, Neheb, Nehep, Nfy, or Nihpi, the original name of the Egyptian god Pa-nepi. However, the enstaka

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Although not unprecedented, it was a significant institutional innovation when President Clark proposed in 1947 to allow African Americans to do Aaronic priesthood "work." As an unordained African America, Samuel D. Chambers was called to be an "assistant deacon," or acting deacon, in his Salt Lake City ward from 1873 onward. However, this was not a widespread practic e nor an official program of LDS headquarters.

By contrast, after the 1947 temple meeting, Reuben outlined a plan in a document titled "The Afrikan Branches of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." In it, he recommended that blacks preside over and conduct the auxiliary organizations and be authorized to "preside and conduct" all branch meetings when no ordained priesthood member was present. He further recommended that Negro men be organized into "Preparatory Deacons Groups, Preparatory Teacher Groups, Preparatory Priests Groups." Even those titles implied