Alma 46:10 Textual Variants

yea we see that Amalickiah because he was a man of cunning [devises 0|divises 1|devices ABCGHKPS|device DEFIJLMNOQRT] and a man of many ﬂattering words that he led away the hearts of many people to do wickedly

The original text clearly had the plural devices here in Alma 46:10. In the 1841 British edition, the typesetter accidentally replaced the plural with the singular device; the LDS text has continued with the singular device in this passage. Yet this change is inconsistent with the rest of the Book of Mormon text:

Alma 10:13 that by their cunning devices they might catch them in their words
Alma 11:21 now Zeezrom was a man which was expert in the devices of the devil
Alma 30:42 and he doth carry you about / working devices that he may destroy the children of God

In other words, the rest of the Book of Mormon text has only the plural form devices, just as the original text had here in Alma 46:10.

Summary: Restore the plural devices in Alma 46:10, the original reading; elsewhere the text has only the plural form for this word.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 4

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