The author of the Book of Mormon tried hard to make it sound like the King James Bible. Way too
hard, in fact. Here's what Mark Twain said about it:
Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladled in
a few such Scriptural phrases as "exceeding sore," "and it came to pass," etc., and made things satisfactory again.
- Exceedingly
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1:10,
1:17,
2:13,
16,
17,
3:2,
11,
14,
26,
6:10,
13,
21,
7:4,
8:7,
12,
15,
21,
12:12,
19:3(2),
Mark Twain's Look at Mormonism (Roughing It)
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