3 Nephi 1:17
1830 Edition
and they began to know that the Son of God must shortly appear; yea, in fine, all the people upon the face of the whole earth, from the west to the east, both in the land north and in the land south, were so exceedingly astonished, that they fell to the earth;
Changes
Simple English
They began to know that the Son of God must shortly appear. All the people upon the face of the whole earth from the west to the east, both in the land north and in the land south, were so exceedingly astonished that they fell to the earth.
Paraphrase
They began to understand that the Son of God would appear soon. In fact, people everywhere—from west to east, in the northern lands and southern lands—were so overwhelmed they fell to the ground.