Mosiah 29:33
1830 Edition
And many more things did king Mosiah write unto them, unfolding unto them all the trials and troubles of a righteous king; yea, all the travails of soul for their people, and also all the murmurings of the people to their king; and he explained it all unto them.
Changes
Simple English
King Mosiah wrote many more things to them. He explained all the hard work and troubles of a good king. He explained how hard their souls work for their people. He explained how people complain to their king. He explained it all to them.
Paraphrase
Mosiah wrote much more to them, laying out all the struggles a good king faces—all the heartache for his people, all the complaints he has to deal with. He explained it all.
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