Alma 46:5 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and they had been led by the [ flatteries 0ABCDGHKLMNOPQRST|flateries 1|flatterers EFIJ] of Amalickiah that if they would support him and establish him to be their king that he would make them rulers over the people

Here in the 1849 LDS edition, the word flatteries was accidentally replaced by flatterers. Despite its difficulty, this typo continued in the LDS text until replaced by the correct reading in the 1902 LDS missionary edition and, independently, in the 1905 LDS missionary edition. Given the context, flatteries is obviously correct.

Summary: Maintain the original flatteries in Alma 46:5.

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

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