Mosiah 29:32
1830 Edition
And now I desire that this inequality should be no more in this land, especially among this my people; but I desire that this land be a land of liberty, and every man may enjoy his rights and privileges alike, so long as the Lord seeth fit, that we may live and inherit the land; yea, even as long as any of our posterity remaineth upon the face of the land.
Changes
Simple English
I want this unfairness to end in this land, especially among my people. I want this land to be a land of freedom. I want every person to enjoy the same rights and privileges. This should last as long as the Lord lets us live and own the land. It should last as long as any of our children remain on the earth.'
Paraphrase
I don't want that kind of unfairness in this land anymore—especially not among you, my people. I want this to be a land of freedom, where everyone has equal rights and opportunities, for as long as God allows us to live here. As long as any of our children remain on this land.
Notes
"Another seemingly anachronistic issue in the Book of Mormon is a republican form of government. When the Puritans settled in the New World they drew up a document known as the Oath of a Freeman. The word 'freeman' was commonly used in Joseph Smith's day. Als, members of the Smith family had been involved in America's fight for freedom from England in 1776, and in the war of 1812. Thus the concept of liberty and freedom were part of Smith's environment....Also in Smith's day it was common to refer to America as the 'land of liberty,' a phrase found in the Book of Mormon." -Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Joseph Smith's Plagiarism of the Bible in the Book of Mormon, p. 11-12.
See also Alma 51:6-7 for use of the phrase, "freemen."
LDS author Grant Hardy writes, "In 1831, Alexander Campbell, one of the book's first critics (and certainly the first one to read it carefully), famously observed that it seemed to weigh in on all the popular religious questions of the day, including 'infant baptism, ordination, the trinity, regeneration, repentance, justification, the fall of man, the atonement, transubstantiation, fasting, penance, church government, religious experience, the call to the ministry , the general resurrection, eternal punishment, who may baptize, and even the question of freemasonry, republican government, and the right of the man.' This is a fair list, and references to these topics-or their analogous counterparts-can be found throughout the Book of Mormon." -Hardy, Understanding the Book of Mormon, p. 184