Just a quick note on Jacob. Jacob seems to be to give a close up picture of the Nephites at this time. They come across in his writings as a small group of people. Nephi seems to focus so much on the people he was seeing in his visions wh would be reading his record that you don't get a great picture of what the society might have actually been like.
Also, Jacob makes me wonder why Nephi didn't pass the records on to any of his own seed. He talks about his seed all throughout both his books, so I think it's fair to assume he had some children, but none of them get the book. It could easily have been because none of them were worthy, but it could also have been that none of them were boys, or that none of them seemed to have the aptitude for writing. Who knows.
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