Mosiah 2:5
1830 Edition
And it came to pass that when they came up to the temple, they pitched their tents round about, every man according to his family, consisting of his wife, and his sons, and his daughters, and their sons, and their daughters, from the eldest down to the youngest, every family being separate, one from another;
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Simple English
When they came to the temple, they set up their tents all around it. Every man camped with his family - his wife, his sons and daughters, and their children, from the oldest to the youngest. Each family stayed separate from the others.
Paraphrase
When they arrived at the temple, they set up their tents all around it. Each family stayed together—husband, wife, sons, daughters, grandchildren—from oldest to youngest. Every family had their own space.
Notes
King Benjamin's speech, given in approximately 124 B.C., has much similarities to nineteenth century revival meetings that Joseph Smith attended. -Vogel, Making of a Prophet, pp. 147-162.
Captain Frederick Marryat wrote, as cited in Uncommon Americans, "The camp was raised upon...a piece of tableland...at one end... was a raises tand, which served as a pulpit for the preachers...Outside of the area, which may be designated as the church, were hundreds of tents pitched...In front of the pulpit was a space railed off...which I was told was the anxious seat... girl after girl dropped down upon the straw on one side, and men on the other... Every minute the excitement increased; some wrung their hands and called for mercy..."
Famous nineteenth century revival preacher, Charles G. Finney, described the response from attenders in the following way: "I had not spoken to them... more than a quarter of an hour when all at once an awful solemnity seemed to settle down upon them; the congregation began to fall from their seats in every direction, and cried for mercy... nearly the whole congregation were either on their knees or prostrate..." -Charles G. Finney, Memoirs of Rev. Charles G. Finney, p. 103.
LDS historian B. H. Roberts noted, "It will not be necessary to further repeat the scenes, nor describe again the manner of these 'religious' manifestations. It is clearly established now that these scenes of religious frenzy were common in the vicinage where Joseph Smith resided in his youth and early manhood... The question is, did his knowledge of these things lead to their introduction into the Book of Mormon narrative? I think it cannot be questioned but where there is sufficient resemblance between the Book of Mormon instances of religious emotionalism and those cited in the foregoing quotations from the works of Edwards et al. to justify the thought that the latter might well have suggested and indeed become the source of the former." -B. H. Roberts, Studies of the Book of Mormon, ed. Brigham D. Madsen (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992), p. 308.