Variant: In the printer’s manuscript and the 1830 edition, verse 31 begins: “And it came to pass that there.… ”
Text: There is no break in the 1830 edition. Mormon apparently saw the exchange with Zeezrom as an essential part of the inserted discourse and intended it to be read as a whole.
Verse 32 should not have been the splitting point between chapters. Perhaps it might be better to split the chapters at verse 31, but verse 32 is the introduction to a complete section that ends in our chapter 11. This verse should be read with verses 1–21, as all of these verses from 10:31 through 11:20 lead up to verse 21 in chapter 11.