Mormon returns to the very first statement he made. The remnant is to understand that they are of the house of Israel. Here he makes it explicit that they are inheritors of “the first covenant.”
While Mormon understood that the work would first come to the Gentiles, his very personal dedication is not to the Gentiles, but to the remnant of his people, the house of Israel. Mormon may allow us to read it and be adopted in to the covenant, but he wrote it for his own.
Textual: This is the end of a chapter in the 1830 edition, and the end of the direct hand of Mormon on the plates.