Two of the sons of Lehi were Laman (pronounced “LAY-man”) and Nephi (pronounced “NEE-pheye”). During the next several centuries they split into hostile factions, and in 231 BC they began a war that lasted 150 years. The Lamanites, who rejected Christ (himself an emigrant to the New World, during an interval between his resurrection and his ascent into heaven), ended up victorious over the righteous Nephites. The last Nephite, Moroni (pronounced “More-OWN-eye”), buried the golden plates that Joseph Smith would dig up in New York state in 1823 and decipher to produce the Book of Mormon.