Book of Ether Chapter Four. Book of Mormon 1830 First Edition

Moroni relates the details of the wars and contentions of the descendants of the brother of Jared and it was one eternal round of some being good, then multitudes bwing wicked and murders and secret combinations and jealousy between father and son and brother and brother in ruling kingdoms so they sought each others lives. Some of them lived to grand ages of decades past 100 years. Many were born and died in captivity. Prophets did come to prophesy but they words fell on deaf ears.