Textual: Once again Mormon elects to give the terse historical account rather than a citation from his sources. What he needs to do is get Aaron, Muloki, and Ammah into prison so that they can be freed, and he does so in a single sentence. When he has them freed in verse 14, he simply notes that they were fed and clothed, not dwelling on the apparent tortures they endured that were already explained to us. Once again, Mormon is condensing the repetitive information to concentrate on new material while still giving enough history to provide the structural framework of his narrative.