Original Chapter 1. Comprising chapters 1 to 5 inclusive
For behold, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto my father, yea, even in a dream, and said unto him: Blessed art thou Lehi, because of the things which thou hast done; and because thou hast been faithful and declared unto this people the things which I commanded thee, behold, they seek to take away thy life.
In Royal Skousen’s “The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text”, 1 Nephi 2:1 reads a little differently: