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Did Nephi Marry His Cousin?

We have a bunch of 'Jots & Tittles' cards and on one of the cards it says that Sariah, Lehi's wife, was the sister of Ishmael, the father of the daughters that the sons of Lehi married. This would mean that Nephi's father-in-law was also his uncle and his wife - his cousin. LDS_forever and I were looking up the scriptures for a reference to this, but did not find any. Does anyone have text to prove this claim?

Cousin Marry Nephi Did

I found the following information regards to this topic. It seems like Lucy Mack Smith wrote some letters giving more insight about the 116 lost pages of the Book of Mormon and she may have added it that information at some point of time on these letters:

"The Lucy Mack Smith letter is very significant. It is the earliest dated Restoration document and was written during the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. As such, it helps to verify Joseph Smith's account of the origin of the Book of Mormon. Critics have said that Joseph made up the account since he did not write it until several years later. They fail to point out that delayed reporting of important history is normal. Lucy's letter also gives us for the first time some information from the 116 lost pages. At the time that Lucy wrote the letter, January 23, 1829, this was the only portion of the Book of Mormon that had been translated. The information is that Ishmael was Sariah's brother. This helps explain why Ishmael and his family were willing to go with Lehi into the desert..."

https://www.restoredcovenant.org/Document.a...n+the+New+World

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Name: don

Comments: Unfortunately, that Lucy Mack Smith letter is a forgery.
(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hofmann)
Mark Hoffman was aware of speculation that Lehi and Ismael were related, so he added this to his forged letter.
My question: what other sources are there besides this letter that suggest or support the idea that Lehi and Ishmael were related?

Cousin Marry Nephi Did

I did some checking because the relation thing sounded familiar but I was under the impression that it was actually Lehi and Ishmael, not Sariah and Ishmael. The only thing I could find was from Hugh Nibley:

Link found at: https://www.boap.org/LDS/Hugh-Nibley/Lehi_i...ert_part_1.html

He obviously doesn't say that they were for certain, I just put it here because of him telling about the custom. What are your thoughts?

Rather off topic, but... We had that game when I was a teenager! That would be cool to have now that I am actually past that stage in life and wanting to learn!