Jared
- Children
- Jacom
- Gilgah
- Mahah
- Orihah
- 8 daughters
Citations
- Jared asks his brother to petition God to not confound their family's languages at the time of the tower of Babel.
- 1) And it came to pass that Jared and his brother, and their families, and also the friends of Jared and his brother and their families, went down into the valley which was northward, (and the name of the valley was Nimrod, being called after the mighty hunter) with their flocks which they had gathered together, male and female, of every kind.
- 2) And they did also lay snares and catch fowls of the air; and they did also prepare a vessel, in which they did carry with them the fish of the waters.
- 3) And they did also carry with them deseret, which, by interpretation, is a honey bee; and thus they did carry with them swarms of bees, and all manner of that which was upon the face of the land, seeds of every kind.
- 13) And now I proceed with my record; for behold, it came to pass that the Lord did bring Jared and his brethren forth even to that great sea which divideth the lands. And as they came to the sea they pitched their tents; and they called the name of the place Moriancumer; and they dwelt in tents, and dwelt in tents upon the seashore for the space of four years.
- 1) And now I, Moroni, proceed to give the record of Jared and his brother.
- 14) And Jared had four sons; and they were called Jacom, and Gilgah, and Mahah, and Orihah.
- 16) And the friends of Jared and his brother were in number about twenty and two souls; and they also begat sons and daughters before they came to the promised land; and therefore they began to be many.
- 19) And the brother of Jared began to be old, and saw that he must soon go down to the grave; wherefore he said unto Jared: Let us gather together our people that we may number them, that we may know of them what they will desire of us before we go down to our graves.
- 20) And accordingly the people were gathered together. Now the number of the sons and the daughters of the brother of Jared were twenty and two souls; and the number of sons and daughters of Jared were twelve, he having four sons.
- 24) But Jared said unto his brother: Suffer them that they may have a king. And therefore he said unto them: Choose ye out from among our sons a king, even whom ye will.
- 27) And it came to pass that neither would the sons of Jared, even all save it were one; and Orihah was anointed to be king over the people.
- 29) And it came to pass that Jared died, and his brother also.
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