The Book of Mormon

Alma 57:14

1830 Edition

For behold, they would break out in great numbers, and would fight with stones, and with clubs, or whatsoever things they could get into their hands, insomuch that we did slay upwards of two thousand of them, after they had surrendered themselves prisoners of war;

Changes

For behold, they would break out in great numbers, and would fight with stones, and with clubs, or whatsoever things they could get into their hands, insomuch that we did slay upwards of two thousand of them, after they had surrendered themselves prisoners of war;.

Simple English

They would break out in large groups. They would fight with stones and clubs or anything they could grab. We had to kill more than two thousand of them after they had given up as prisoners of war.

Paraphrase

They kept breaking out in large groups, fighting us with stones, clubs, whatever they could grab. We ended up killing more than two thousand of them, even after they’d surrendered.