The Book of Mormon

1 Nephi 20:19

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thy seed also had been as the sand; the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Influences

Isaiah 48:19 (KJV)
Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Changes

tThy seed also had been as the sand; the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Simple English

Your children would have been like the sand. Your descendants would have been like the gravel. Your name would not have been cut off or destroyed.

Paraphrase

Your children would have been as countless as grains of sand. Your family line would have spread like pebbles on a beach. Your name would never have been wiped out or forgotten.