Narrative analysis: Nephi abruptly begins recording his brother, Jacob's, sermon. There is no transition between narrative units as Nephi has previously done. Whereas up to this point, there is some attempt at a literary cohesiveness between the various themes Nephi has written about, this new one begins almost without warning.
It might be deduced that there is a time separation between the writing of the end of chapter 5 and this beginning of 6. As indicated in the analysis of Nephi's narrative structure, he may have finished his planned writing with the end of 5, and thus there is a new beginning, where not even Nephi understood its conceptual relationship to the previous narrative.