The division into a separate chapter at this point makes it more difficult to see the function of the beginning of verse 1. In the original, longer chapter, it was the transition to move from the ending of the events of Ammon and Lamoni to the beginning of the story of Aaron and Lamoni’s father. Alma had interweaved the ending of Ammon and Lamoni’s story with the freeing of the brothers from Middoni and some of the events that happened to both those who had been imprisoned and Ammon. The very last was about Ammon and Lamoni, and, therefore, Alma notes that “we will return to the account of Aaron and his brethren.”
Although this beginning makes it clear that Aaron and his brothers, and perhaps others, were part of the beginning of this story, it will quickly concentrate only on Aaron. Nevertheless, Alma clearly notes that all the brothers, save Ammon, appear before the overking in the land of Nephi: “we are the brethren of Ammon.”