3 Nephi 3:22
1830 Edition
And it came to pass in the seventeenth year, in the latter end of the year, the proclamation of Lachoneus had gone forth throughout all the face of the land, and they had taken their horses, and their chariots, and their cattle, and all their flocks, and their herds, and their grain, and all their substance, and did march forth by thousands, and by tens of thousands, until they had all gone forth to the place which had been appointed, that they should gather themselves together, to defend themselves against their enemies.
Changes
Simple English
In the seventeenth year, at the end of the year, Lachoneus’ message had gone out through all the land. The people took their horses, chariots, cattle, all their animals, herds, their grain, and everything they owned. They marched out by thousands and tens of thousands. They all went to the place they were told to go. They would meet there to protect themselves from their enemies.
Paraphrase
By the end of the seventeenth year, Lachoneus’s proclamation had reached every corner of the land. The people took their horses, chariots, cattle, flocks, herds, grain, and everything they owned and marched out by the thousands—by the tens of thousands—until they had all reached the gathering place where they would defend themselves against their enemies.
Notes
Currently, there is no archaeological evidence indicating that horses and wheeled transport were present in the ancient Americas during the time period described in the Book of Mormon. Horses are generally understood to have been introduced to the Americas by Spanish explorers in the 16th century. Similarly, there is no widely accepted archaeological evidence supporting the use of wheeled vehicles, such as chariots, in the pre-Columbian New World. This absence of evidence has led some scholars to view references to such elements as anachronisms, warranting further question of the text’s historical integrity.