The Brother of Jared

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Pagag
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Prominent Descendants
The Descendant of the Brother of Jared

He is always called "the Brother of Jared" in the Book of Mormon. Joseph Smith described that his actual name was "Mahonri Moriancumer".

Citations

Jared asks his brother to petition God to not confound their family's languages at the time of the tower of Babel.
The Lord covenants with Jared to give him a land of promise. The Jaredites prepare for a Journey. The Lord commands the brother of Jared to solve the problem of how to light their ships while they travel.
The brother of Jared asks the Lord to touch stones to cause them to light up. The Brother of Jared sees the finger of Christ, then Christ reveals himself. He has a spirit body in the shape of a mortal body. The interpreters are provided.
1) And the Lord commanded the brother of Jared to go down out of the mount from the presence of the Lord, and write the things which he had seen; and they were forbidden to come unto the children of men until after that he should be lifted up upon the cross; and for this cause did king Mosiah keep them, that they should not come unto the world until after Christ should show himself unto his people.
4) Behold, I have written upon these plates the very things which the brother of Jared saw; and there never were greater things made manifest than those which were made manifest unto the brother of Jared.
7) And in that day that they shall exercise faith in me, saith the Lord, even as the brother of Jared did, that they may become sanctified in me, then will I manifest unto them the things which the brother of Jared saw, even to the unfolding unto them all my revelations, saith Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Father of the heavens and of the earth, and all things that in them are.
"While residing in Kirtland Elder Reynolds Cahoon had a son born to him. One day when President Joseph Smith was passing his door he called the Prophet in and asked him to bless and name the baby. Joseph did so and gave the boy the name of Mahonri Moriancumer. When he had finished the blessing he laid the child on the bed, and turning to Elder Cahoon he said, the name I have given your son is the name of the brother of Jared ; the Lord has just shown [or revealed] it to me. Elder William F. Cahoon, who was standing near heard the Prophet make this statement to his father ; and this was the first time the name of the brother of Jared was known in the Church in this dispensation."
The Jaredites arrive in the promised land. As the brother of Jared grows old, the people want one of his kids to be king, but they refuse. The brother of Jared dies.
And when he had gathered together an army he came up unto the land of Moron where the king dwelt, and took him captive, which brought to pass the saying of the brother of Jared that they would be brought into captivity.
17) And it came to pass that there arose another mighty man; and he was a descendant of the brother of Jared.
18) And it came to pass that he did overthrow Moron and obtain the kingdom; wherefore, Moron dwelt in captivity all the remainder of his days; and he begat Coriantor.
20) And behold, we have seen in this record that one of these was the brother of Jared; for so great was his faith in God, that when God put forth his finger he could not hide it from the sight of the brother of Jared, because of his word which he had spoken unto him, which word he had obtained by faith.
21) And after the brother of Jared had beheld the finger of the Lord, because of the promise which the brother of Jared had obtained by faith, the Lord could not withhold anything from his sight; wherefore he showed him all things, for he could no longer be kept without the veil.
24) And thou hast made us that we could write but little, because of the awkwardness of our hands. Behold, thou hast not made us mighty in writing like unto the brother of Jared, for thou madest him that the things which he wrote were mighty even as thou art, unto the overpowering of man to read them.
30) For the brother of Jared said unto the mountain Zerin, Remove—and it was removed. And if he had not had faith it would not have moved; wherefore thou workest after men have faith.

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