What is the significance of repeating the word remember over and over again in this passage?

Thomas R. Valletta

“Repetitive resumption refers to an editor’s return to an original narrative following a deliberate interlude. Old Testament writers accomplished this by repeating a key word or phrase that immediately preceded the textual interruption. … A careful survey of editorial activity in the Book of Mormon shows that Nephite editors used repetitive resumption in a similar manner. … [An] example of repetitive resumption in the Book of Mormon occurs in Helaman 5:5–14. In this section the compiler inserts a direct report of Helaman’s powerful discourse to his sons Nephi and Lehi (see vv. 6–12). This insertion is intentionally prefaced by the editorial introduction, ‘For they remembered the words which their father Helaman spake unto them’ (v. 5)” (Bokovoy, “Repetitive Resumption in the Book of Mormon”).

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