Gospel scholar D. Lynn Johnson argues that the “broken symmetry, as it occurs in Helaman 14:20–27 as the text reads today, is unusual in scripture. In particular, careful analysis reveals that the balance of the record of Samuel’s discourse is highly patterned, primarily in the inverse order of chiasmus, with no other similar instances of out-of-place elements. … An even more compelling argument that the prophecy was inserted later lies in the literary structure of verses 20–27” (Johnson, “The Missing Scripture,” 86–88). This broken symmetry may indicate this passage is Nephi’s later insertion.