The Book of Mormon

Alma 5:10

1830 Edition

And now I ask of you on what conditions are they saved? Yea, what grounds had they to hope for salvation? What is the cause of their being loosed from the bands of death? Yea, and also, the chains of hell?

Changes

And now I ask of you on what conditions are they saved? Yea, wWhat grounds had they to hope for salvation? What is the cause of their being loosed from the bands of death? Yea, and also, the chains of hell?

Simple English

I ask you, how were they saved? Why did they have hope for being saved? What made them free from the chains of death? And from the chains of hell?

Paraphrase

Now let me ask you this: On what condition were they saved? What reason did they have to hope for salvation? What freed them from death’s grip and hell’s chains?