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I've had many discussions over the KJV-ish BOM with Mormons. It just goes over their head. Why would someone in the nineteenth century translate a book into King James English. Unless of course he ws trying to “trick” people.

Twain was a contemporary of the times of Smith and he couldn't understand why it had the King James prose.

To this day Mormons pray in King James prose. Because it's respectful? Which leads to the question. What do you pray in if you are Japanese, German, Spanish etc?

Twain in the book Roughing It points out that the BOM condemns polygamy. Also he writes that Joe Smith didn't practice polygamy. And that Brigham did. Twain also dedicates many pages to Brigham Young and The Mountain Meadow Massacre.