Literary: Rather than the verse division we currently have, I prefer to see a direct parallel between the ending of verse 13 ("we have brought him before you; and now let us slay him") and the beginning of 14 ("Ye shall not slay him, but bring him hither"). These two phrases are intentionally parallel and contrasting. Even though in this section Mormon is citing the conversation as he sees it on his source plates, someone had to write that conversation down. It is quite likely that we are seeing only bits and pieces of some of the structure of the original text. As a recording in a book of the deeds of a king, it would not be surprising to find the conversations "enhanced" with certain literary devices.