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Not to mention the "... begat ... begat ...". :3 I know several Mormons who simply skip over Nephi's ten or so chapters of quoting Isaiah, it being interminable and dense, which is a shame, because those are chapters that Nephi included because he thought they were so important.
Agreed that Toldot (Generations? I forget what it's called in English) is tedious, but it's just one chapter. And it contains the highly entertaining line "And so-and-so begat Nimrod, who was a mighty hunter before the Lord; thus it is said 'Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord'" embedded in the middle of all the begats, which I could never read without giggling when I was a kid.
I believe (and someone else does too) that "nimrod" used as an insult stems from a Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs says of Elmer Fudd, "What a Nimrod", in sarcastic praise of Fudd's hunting skill.
I was so excited to be able to say that thing that you just said, until I saw that you'd already said it. x3