Professor Nibley found it very curious, and wrote a whole book on it, "Lehi in the Desert", coupled, later, with "The World of the Jaredites". This theme also pops up much in his lectures and other writings. I realize we shouldn't base (at least the bigger part of) our testimonies of the Book of Mormon on technical details that Joseph Smith could never, in a thousand years, have gotten from his milieu, but this is a fun read, as is most of Nibley's stuff, and is well worth your time.
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