The First Book of Nephi: Chapter 7

So, after that brief interlude, Nephi gets back to the story. His Dad's just been prophesying stuff (that he's not putting in here) and is now listening to his father's latest vision - namely that he needs to find wives for his sons.

Yes, the Lord commanded them to go back to Jerusalem again. Where they've already upset the Jews, killed the King and made off with a priceless historical record. To go nick a dude called "Ishmael" and his family. He's got daughters. When they got to Ish's house, he was so impressed that they'd spoken to God that he actually agreed to make the whole family go with them into the wilderness.

And they weren't pleased about it. Neph's older brothers were getting really fed up with the schlepping about (remember, they didn't want to leave home anyway) and so were Ishmael's sons (and their families). They just wanted to go home already, rather than keep going back and forth and back and forth to that stupid tent in the middle of nowhere.

Nephi gets prickly over this and gives all of them a telling off, reminding them of the Angel, and that God saved them - the escaping from the mob and the stealing of the book. And that he's trying to save them from God's destruction of Jerusalem "at some future period". So here's your choice: if you go back there, you'll die with them all.

Which incited the older boys to attempt to kick some sense into their baby brother. They tied him up with a bit of string and dumped him.

Nephi prayed to God, whom set him free. He came back to the brothers, and they would have been happy to kick the living snot out of the idiot again if Ishmael's family weren't all "Dudes, leave it. It's not worth the hassle." The brothers apologised like they were told to by their new girlfriends (and I'm sure had to bite their tongues as he got all snotty and righteous about it).

They all mooched back to the tent and sent up MORE sacrifices and offerings.