Omni, after whom this one-chapter book is named, wrote only the first three verses. He refers to himself as “a wicked man” because he had not kept the statutes and commandments of the Lord. It need not be supposed from such an admission that he was guilty of any gross immorality, but rather that he was not zealous in honoring the law of Moses and in keeping other religious obligations. Not having lived according to the Spirit, he was not prepared to teach or write after the manner of the Spirit, and therefore found it necessary to pass the plates to his son Amaron without making any spiritual addition to them.