1 Nephi 2:6
1830 Edition
And it came to pass that when he had travelled three days in the wilderness, he pitched his tent in a valley beside a river of water.
Changes
Simple English
After three days of travel in the wilderness, he set up his tent in a valley by a river.
Paraphrase
After three days of traveling, we stopped and set up our tents in a valley beside a river.
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.