“Also among the ancient Jaredites was a record which had been ‘brought across the great deep’ from Mesopotamia by Jared and his people (8:9). It contained a creation account down to the time of ‘the great tower’ (1:3) and also set forth the ‘secret plans’ of evil men aimed at obtaining kingdoms and glory (8:9). None of this early scriptural information, however, is found in our book of Ether, for it was supposed by Moroni that it would be had among the Jews (1:3)” (Welch, “Preliminary Comments on the Sources behind the Book of Ether,” 5).