{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_book06_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_book06_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_mor_book06_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/mor/book06.htm","summary":"The Words of Mormon is a short transitional chapter from the Book of Mormon, a 19th-century American scripture foundational to the Latter-day Saint tradition. Written in the voice of Mormon, a prophet-historian living several centuries after Christ, it serves as a bridging editorial note explaining how he compiled and arranged the ancient Nephite records he is passing on to his son Moroni. Mormon describes discovering a set of smaller plates containing prophecies and writings from Jacob through King Benjamin, and explains his decision \u2014 guided by the Holy Spirit \u2014 to include them alongside his larger abridgment, even though he does not fully understand why. The chapter closes with a brief historical summary of King Benjamin's reign: his military victories over the Lamanites, his suppression of false prophets and religious dissenters, and his ultimate restoration of peace. Its distinctive character lies in Mormon's first-person, self-aware voice as a compiler who acknowledges he cannot record even a hundredth part of his people's history and who writes with explicit awareness that his civilization is near its end, giving the text an elegiac, archival urgency.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Words of Mormon","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","translated_text":null,"word_count":961}