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Welcome to talking scripture. I'm Mike and I'm Bryce and today we're going to be at

Alma 32 through 35. It's Alma and Amulek to the Zoramites.

The poor Zoramites, because he tries to speak to some of them,

the arrogant ones, and they won't listen,

and then up comes a group of the poor ones,

and he just turns his back and starts to speak to the poor because they're there, they're ready

and they want to be taught.

So 32, 33 is Alma talking, 34, Amulak.

35 is kind of this narrative shift

where Mormon jumps in and says,

hey, let me explain to you historically what's happening

and the very last verse in Alma 35 is a segue between that group of teaching to the

Zormite and then Mormons like okay now Alma's gonna talk to his sons and so that's

kind of the overview of what's happening here. I'm a 32.

Ways of knowing, huh?

This is brilliant scripture.

If you think, I just, again, there's no way Joseph Smith could have at age 24

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