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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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1:7,
10(2), 23,
28, 40,
43, 45
Mark Twain's Look at Mormonism (Roughing It)
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