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Sixth book in the Book of Mormon

The Book of Omni ('/ɒ//m//n//aɪ/) is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon, a text that the Latter Day Saint movement regards as scripture. The book is written as the combined composition of several authors, the first of whom, Omni, provides the name of the book. According to the narrative, the book covers more than two centuries of Nephite history within one chapter of text. It refers to wars between the Nephites and Lamanites, the reign of Kings Mosiah and Benjamin, and their participation in the wars and journeys through the wilderness.

According to authors Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Hemming, Omni wrote in order to maintain a record of the genealogical line. His grandson Chemish, on the other hand, wrote out of obligation. Additionally, Grant Hardy suggests that the contributors to the Book of Omni treated record keeping as "a genealogical responsibility rather than an opportunity for preaching or testifying." Sharon Harris noticed a genealogical theme throughout Omni and identified three of its purposes. She suggests that the purposes of keeping the genealogy in allows the plates to be passed down, preserves teachings of the prophets, and demonstrates the larger influence of genealogy. Terryl Givens claims that Omni wrote in a manner that suggests he believed the Nephites would eventually die out. Adopting Robyn Warhol's term, professor of English at Vermont University Elizabeth Fenton calls the style of the Book of Omni "unnarration" due to a large lack of events while maintaining a "narrative voice." Out of all the narrators, Amoron is the only one who doesn't finish his account with "And I make an end." Throughout the Book of Omni, its narrators claim that God causes the righteous among their people to win wars and punishes the wicked by letting them die in war. Salleh and Hemming take issue with this idea, saying that whether or not someone dies in war does not determine personal righteousness. Sharon Harris points out that the points of contention mentioned by Abinadom and Amaleki lead to bodily injury; from this she concludes that the usage of "contention" here (and in other parts of the Book of Mormon) carries a more intense connotation than what modern readers think of. Donald W. Parry identified four chiastic patterns throughout the Book of Omni in verses 5 7, 12 13, 14, and 25. Some of the repeated chiastic phrases deal with destruction or communication with God.