2 Nephi 5:8

~588–559 BC

1830 Edition

And my people would that we should call the name of the place Nephi; wherefore, we did call it Nephi.

Galatians 2:10 (KJV)

Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

2 Maccabees 1:36 (KJV)

And Neemias called this thing Naphthar, which is as much as to say, a cleansing: but many men call it Nephi.

My people wanted to name the place Nephi. So we called it Nephi.

My people wanted to name the place Nephi, so that’s what we called it.