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I just realized that most of the voice in 4 Nephi is Mormon’s abridgment of the record from Nephi to Ammaron. Their records probably looked much more like the record he kept (at least the record of Ammaron probably did) but he condensed them (and kept his fairly short as well). Mormon was raised until he was 11 away from the center of population – he was a rural boy. I think what we are reading here is Mormon finding his voice, this was probably written before he had started abridging the rest of the records.
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