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And It Came to Pass

New readers of the Book of Mormon might notice how often the Book includes the phrase “and it came to pass,” or “it came to pass,” but it helps to compare things to the King James Bible:

Book of Mormon The Holy Bible
Total words: 269,171 790,027
“and it came to pass:” 1,123 396
“it came to pass:” 230 57
total words: 6,535 2,208
word rate: 2.43% 0.28%
total verses: 6,604 31,102
verse rate: 20.5% 1.46%

Queue the apologists claiming this is somehow evidence of ancient origin.

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