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Words of Mormon

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The Book of Mormon : $b an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi Similar meaning (77%) Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 35. Revelation to Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon, at or near Fayette, New York, December 1830. Similar meaning (75%) Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 34. Revelation through Joseph Smith to Orson Pratt, Fayette, New York, November 4, 1830. Similar meaning (74%) Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 39. Revelation through Joseph Smith to James Covill, Fayette, New York, January 5, 1831. Similar meaning (74%)
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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 — guided by the Holy Spirit — 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.

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