Alma 9:3
~82 BC
1830 Edition
Now they understood not the words which they spake, for they knew not that the earth should pass away.
Influences
Luke 2:50 (KJV)
And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.
Changes
Now they understood not the words which they spake,; for they knew not that the earth should pass away.
Simple English
They didn’t understand what they were saying. They didn’t know that the earth will pass away.
Paraphrase
They didn’t understand what they were saying—they had no idea the earth would actually pass away one day.