GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
Ether
See also Jaredites

The last Jaredite prophet in the Book of Mormon (Ether 12: 1-2).

The book of Ether: A book in the Book of Mormon that contains portions of the record of the Jaredites. The Jaredites were a group of people who lived in the western hemisphere many centuries before the people of Lehi. The book of Ether was taken from twenty-four plates found by the people of Limhi (Mosiah 8: 8-9).

Chapters 1-2 tell how the Jaredites left their home at the time of the Tower of Babel and began their journey to what is now known as the American continent. Chapters 3-6 explain that the brother of Jared saw the premortal Savior and that the Jaredites traveled in eight barges. Chapters 7-11 continue the history of wickedness that dominated much of Jaredite history. Moroni, who edited Ether's record, wrote in chapters 12-13 of wonders done by faith and of Christ and a New Jerusalem to come. Chapters 14-15 tell how the Jaredites became a mighty nation but were destroyed by civil war due to wickedness.