and that his record would be revealed after Christ had been lifted upon the cross. (When Mosiah interpreted the 24 gold plates found by the people of Limhi, and read this account, he was instructed that these things were not to be revealed until after his people had been visited by Christ.) The account continues to relate that the Jaredites, as they came to be known; boarded the boats; and were driven by the wind until they arrived at the "promised land." In the Promised Land When Jared became old, he and his brother gathered their descendants to count them. Jared's brother had 22 descendants, the oldest male being named Pagag. Jared had four sons (Jacom, Gilgah, Mahah, and Orihah) and eight daughters who are mentioned but unnamed. The Jaredite people wanted a king appointed. The brother of Jared was opposed to the idea but ultimately relented and asked the people the choose a king from among his and Jared's sons. All of Jared's brother's sons refused the position, as did Jared's older sons, but Jared's youngest son, Orihah, accepted. Jared and the brother of Jared died during the reign of Orihah. Name In an 1835 letter Oliver Cowdery parenthetically gives the name of the brother of Jared as "Moriancumer," which appears in the Book of Ether in the Book of Mormon only as a place name. A later account describes an 1834 statement by Joseph Smith in which he said that the brother of Jared's name had been revealed to him as "Mahonri Moriancumer": Etymologies have been proposed but remain largely speculative. According to Daniel H. Ludlow, it is not clear why the name of the brother of Jared does not appear in the Book of Mormon. However, the following are possible reasons: The brother of Jared may have omitted his name out of modesty (John the Beloved did essentially the same thing in the Gospel of John, which he wrote). The Book of Ether is clearly a family record of Jared, not the brother of Jared; Ether, the final writer and perhaps the abridger of the record, was a descendant of Jared and might naturally have emphasized the achievements of his direct ancestor rather than the brother of his ancestor. Moroni may have omitted the name in his abridgment because of difficulty in translating (or "transliterating") the name into the Nephite language. In the Roman practice of damnatio