“An important item in the religious legacy inherited by the Nephite people was the Holy Scriptures. By way of illustration, the words ‘Scriptures’ and ‘Holy Scriptures’ appear forty-one times in the Book of Mormon… .
“This treasury of truth apparently had not been seriously consulted by [the people of Ammonihah], however, or its precepts would not have been so outrageously violated” (Reynolds and Sjodahl, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 3:214).