First Nephi Chapter Seventeen - Ancient America

1 Nephi 17:2 Raw Meat: The Hiltons claim that eating "raw meat" (1 Nephi 17:2) was nothing new to either Lehi's group or the desert Arabs. It is interesting to note that the Arabs subsist on a spicy kind of "soft jerky,” dried by the sun, and called by the name "basterna," which interpreted means "raw meat." ................
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