And it came to pass that we traveled for the space of four days, nearly a south-southeast direction, and we did pitch our tents again; and we did call the name of the place Shazer.
When a Hebrew faces God, he faces east. His covenant hand, therefore, is in the south. So south-southeast is the covenant direction towards God. The directions stated in Nephi's account of his travels are not just a set of compass coordinates. They tell us the direction of his heart. His heart is set on a covenant with God, and his face is always towards his Master. No matter which physical direction we may be headed, spiritually we always want to be going east, where the sun and the Son rise.
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