The phrase “And it came to pass” appears 1,070 times in the Book of Mormon—averaging over 2.01 times per page and occurring in roughly 16% of verses.

Mark Twain humorously remarked on this repetition:

“‘And it came to pass’ was his [Joseph Smith’s] pet. If he had left that out, his Bible would have been only a pamphlet.”

Mark Twain, Roughing It (Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., 1891), 127-128.