0 Ether : Science

Orihah ... begat thirty and one, among whom were twenty and three sons. Ether 7:1 9:35

Trivia: When the Jaredites discovered America, how many barges did they use?

Ether : Science (11)

  1. The Jaredites were Israelites who lived at the time of the Tower of Babel. () 1:33
  2. The Jaredites brought domesticated old world animals and plants "of every kind" to the New World. 1:41
  3. "They did also carry with them deseret, which, by interpretation, is a honey bee." There were no honey bees in the New World before they were introduced by Europeans in the 17th century. () 2:3
  4. The brother of Jared made 16 small stones, as clear as glass, out of molten rock. He then asked God to touch the stones to make them into lights to light up the inside of the barges. God did as the brother of Jared requested. 3:1
  5. "He ... made swords out of steel." 7:9
  6. "All manner of cattle, of oxen, and cows, and of sheep, and swine, and of goats ... horses, and asses, and elephants" None of these animals existed in the New World at the time it was supposedly occupied by the Jaredites . 9:18
  7. "Coriantum took to wife, in his old age, a young maid, and begat sons and daughters; wherefore he lived until he was an hundred and forty and two years old." 9:24
  8. "There came forth poisonous serpents also upon the face of the land, and did poison many people." 9:31
  9. "Lib also did that which was good in the sight of the Lord. And ... the poisonous serpents were destroyed." 10:19
  10. Brass, iron and silks -- none of which existed in the Pre-Columbian New World. 10:23
  11. "There had been slain two millions of mighty men, and also their wives and their children." Millions of people were "slain by the sword", yet no swords have ever been found from pre-Columbian America. 15:2

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