Mormon uses a header at the beginning of this chapter to signal that he is returning to Alma’s personal record. He has been mixing information from that record with historical information from the large plates in previous chapters. These chapters, which will record the blessings to his sons, will be heavily copied from Alma’s personal record. What we cannot know is whether Mormon copied all the available text or made selections. The much shorter blessing to the second son, Shiblon, perhaps suggests that Mormon is being selective.