When Lehi departed from the Old World, his group numbered fewer than twenty people. However, nineteen years later, they had prospered so much in their new land that they constructed a temple which …

“…manner of the construction was like unto the temple of Solomon, and the workmanship thereof was exceedingly fine.”

^{2 Nephi 5:16, The Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1977), 61.}

^{In contrast, Solomon’s Temple required 30,000 Israelites, 150,000 stone cutters and carriers, 3,300 supervisors, and took approximately seven years to build.}