The Book of Mormon

Ether 11:6

1830 Edition

and there was great calamity in all the land: for they had testified that a great curse should come upon the land, and also upon the people, and that there should be a great destruction among them, such an one as never had been upon the face of the earth; and their bones should become as heaps of earth upon the face of the land, except they should repent of their wickedness.

Changes

aAnd there was great calamity in all the land:, for they had testified that a great curse should come upon the land, and also upon the people, and that there should be a great destruction among them, such an one as never had been upon the face of the earth;, and their bones should become as heaps of earth upon the face of the land, except they should repent of their wickedness.

Simple English

Big trouble came to the whole land. The prophets had said a great curse would come. They said there would be terrible destruction like nothing the earth had ever seen. The people’s bones would pile up like dirt on the ground unless they stopped their evil.

Paraphrase

Disaster swept through the land. The prophets had warned that a terrible curse would come—destruction like nothing ever seen on earth. The people’s bones would pile up like dirt across the ground unless they turned from their evil ways.