Lineage of Abraham and Mormons
Answers to Gospel Questions 1:171; “…Abraham, Joseph, and Moses married women of their own race, and we need have no worry over our lineage, because we are of that same race.”
Galatians 3:16; “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.”
Actually Joseph married Asenath, an Egyptian woman. She was given to Joseph as a gift from the pharaoh in appreciation for what Joseph had done for Egypt. (Gen. 41:45) Asenath and Joseph had two sons; Manasseh and Ephraim.
Secondly, the Mormons are not a race of people so how could they be Egyptian or Hebrew?
Firstly, the Egyptians at the time of Abraham, Joseph, and Moses were all descendants of Shem, the land having been conquered by the Hyksos. As such, Asenath was of the same race as Joseph, both being of the Semitic line.
Secondly, while the religion of the LDS does not make a race, it is perfectly true that at the time this statement was made the vast majority were all descended through Europe. The native people of this land intermingled with the Lost Tribes of Israel, and are thus of the blood and race of Abraham.