Omni

The Book of Omni is a brief scriptural record from the Book of Mormon, part of the Latter-day Saint canon, belonging to the genre of ancient religious chronicle. It consists of short entries from five successive record-keepers — Omni, Amaron, Chemish, Abinadom, and Amaleki — each passing engraved metal plates down through generations spanning roughly 282 years of Nephite history. The dominant content is Amaleki's longer account of King Mosiah leading a righteous remnant out of the land of Nephi into the wilderness, where they encounter the people of Zarahemla — a separate group descended from Jerusalem-era refugees whose language had degraded and who had lost their faith entirely. A distinctive claim is the discovery of an engraved stone that Mosiah translates by divine gift, which describes a figure named Coriantumr whose ancestors came from the Tower of Babel — connecting Nephite history to a much older, separately destroyed civilization. The book is notably self-aware about its own brevity and inadequacy, with multiple authors explicitly noting they write "few things," and it closes with Amaleki's direct evangelical exhortation to "come unto Christ" before handing the plates to King Benjamin. Its compressed, multi-voice format makes it one of the shortest and most transitional books in the Nephite record tradition.

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