Book of Alma

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The Book of Alma is a book in the Book of Mormon named after Alma the Younger, a prophet and the chief judge of the Nephites. It is the longest book in the collection, with 63 chapters that take up about one-third of the book. It covers the first 39 years of the Nephites’ reign of the judges, a period when their government blended church leadership with civil authority in a constitutional theocratic system.