3 Nephi 4:19
1830 Edition
because of the scantiness of provisions among the robbers; for behold they had nothing save it were meat for their subsistence, which meat they did obtain in the wilderness.
Changes
And because of the scantiness of provisions among the robbers; for behold, they had nothing save it were meat for their subsistence, which meat they did obtain in the wilderness.;
Simple English
The robbers didn’t have much food. They only had meat to eat. They got this meat in the wild places.
Paraphrase
The robbers, on the other hand, had very little food—only meat they could hunt in the wilderness.