Book of Mormon Pages and Time Periods

This chart shows how many pages in the Book of Mormon correspond with each author and time period.

Approximate years

Pages

* Estimated years

1 Nephi

13

52.5

2 Nephi

43

64

Jacob

63*

18.5

Enos

62*

2.5

Jarom

59

2

Omni

229

3

Mosiah

40

62

Alma

39

161

Helaman

52

38

3 Nephi

35

58

4 Nephi

286

4

Mormon

79

18.5

Moroni

21

13.5

Ponder this question: Why did Mormon include what he included?

© FARMS, used by permission, adapted from chart 23 in John W. Welch and J. Gregory Welch, Charting the Book of Mormon (1999).