1 Nephi 2:5
1830 Edition
and he came down by the borders near the shore of the Red Sea; and he travelled in the wilderness, in the borders, which was nearer the Red Sea; and he did travel in the wilderness with his family, which consisted of my mother, Sariah, and my elder brothers, which were Laman, Lemuel and Sam.
Changes
Simple English
He traveled near the Red Sea. He went through the wilderness with his family. His family was my mother Sariah and my older brothers Laman, Lemuel, and Sam.
Paraphrase
We traveled down near the shore of the Red Sea, staying close to its borders as we made our way through the wilderness. Our family was my mother Sariah, my older brothers Laman, Lemuel, and Sam, and me.
Notes
"There are thirty-two interesting parallels between material found in three books of the Apocrypha and the Book of Mormon story of Nephi....Interestingly, twenty-eight of the thirty-two parallels to the Apocrypha are found in the first five chapters of the Book of Mormon. This constitutes an extraordinary cluster of similarities..." -Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Joseph Smith's Plagiarism of the Bible in the Book of Mormon, p. 29.
Parallel: Nephi was raised in a house in Jerusalem, but before he killed Laban, his father took the family into the wilderness and they lived in tents. Judith also lived in a house. After her husband's death, however, she made a tent which she put on top of her house. Later she cut off Holofernes' head in his own tent (see Judith 8:4-6). In both 1 Nephi and Judith we find the words "three days," "valley," and "to the tent of" (Compare 1 Nephi 2:6; 3:1 with Judith 10:11, 17; 12:7).
For other parallels, please see: 1 Nephi 1:1, 1 Nephi 1:2, 1 Nephi 1:17, 1 Nephi 4:20-24, 1 Nephi 3:3, 1 Nephi 3:16, 1 Nephi 3:25, 1 Nephi 3:31, 1 Nephi 4:1-2, 1 Nephi 4:4-5, 1 Nephi 4:7-9, 1 Nephi 4:18, 1 Nephi 4:19-24 & 38, 1 Nephi 4:20, 1 Nephi 4:27, 1 Nephi 5:9, 1 Nephi 13:40, 2 Nephi 5:8, Mosiah 10:13, 4 Nephi 1:31.
For a full note on the use of the Apocrypha, please see the annotation at 1 Nephi 1:1.
Sariah is one of only three women in the New World who are given names. The others are "Abish" in Alma 19:16, and "the harlot Isabel" in Alma 39:3.
In 1 Nephi 16:7, we are told, "I, Nephi, took of the daughters of Ishmael to wife; and also, my brethren took of the daughters of Ishmael to wife; and also Zoram took the eldest daughter of Ishmael to wife."
Despite Nephi never mentioning his wife's name, he uses his own name "I, Nephi" eighty-six times in the first two books.