Understanding this one, simple thing completely explained the existence of Isaiah chapters in the Book of Mormon. . It never made much sense to me why Nephi would just copy and paste massive chunks of Isaiah into the Book of Mormon. Even if he thought Isaiah was important and he wanted to talk about it, did he really need to dump the whole text in there? But then I learned about this practice in ancient Jewish writing and it made so much sense. . People in the ancient world obviously didn't have