Nephi narrates the story of going back for the plates in such a way that he is the hero. He always does right, his brothers always do wrong. But why don’t we hear anything directly from Lehi about he glorious job Nephi did in triumphing over Laban?

Saraih’s complaint against Lehi is one of only two times that Nephi ever directly quotes a woman. And how does Nephi know about this conversation, since he wasn’t around to hear it.

Lehi’s profession of faith sets up him and his family to be potential victims (they would have died with everyone else if they hadn’t left) and deflects from the things that Nephi and his brothers did — killing and stealing from the man they just killed.