Moroni’s explicitly spelled-out moral, frequently repeated during the Jaredite story, has been the promise of the people and the land. Moroni resumes his story by praising the land. Although he is obviously sympathetic with Ether, a prophet ignored by his people, he focuses on Ether’s message about the land, beginning with its creation and continuing with its emergence from the flood waters. He uses the land’s story to review all of Jaredite history, the promise given to a chosen people from those earliest beginnings. It has always been a “chosen land of the Lord,” blessed by the commandment “that all men should serve him who dwell upon the face thereof.” Nevertheless, the variable is the people on the land and not the land itself. The promise follows the people’s righteousness rather than the land itself.