Why did they seek to put Alma and Amulek away in secret?

Thomas R. Valletta

“The word privily here signifies ‘privately,’ ‘in secret,’ or ‘clandestinely.’ The passage suggests either that they were ashamed of what they were about to do, or else, for strategic reasons, that they thought it best to accomplish their murderous designs with as little publicity as possible” (Reynolds and Sjodahl, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 3:216).

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