“The Hundredth Part of the Things of My People”

Mormon tells us repeatedly that he could not include even the hundredth part of the records of his people (see also commentary at 3 Nephi 26:6–11). If he had included all of it, a hundred times more than what we have, we would have, in English, a 53,000-page Book of Mormon instead of a 530-page Book of Mormon.

“I Cannot Write the Hundredth Part of the Things of My People”

Mormon tells us repeatedly that he could not include even the hundredth part of the records of his people (see also commentary at 3 Nephi 26:6–11). If he had included all of it, a hundred times more than what we have, we would have, in English, a 53,000-page Book of Mormon instead of a 530-page Book of Mormon.