Alma 47:15
~72 BC
1830 Edition
And it came to pass that when they saw that they were surrounded, they plead with Amalickiah that he would suffer them to fall in with their brethren, that they might not be destroyed. Now this was the very thing which Amalickiah desired.
Influences
Luke 8:32 (KJV)
And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
Changes
And it came to pass that when they saw that they were surrounded, they plead with Amalickiah that he would suffer them to fall in with their brethren, that they might not be destroyed. Now this was the very thing which Amalickiah desired.
Simple English
When they saw they were surrounded, they begged Amalickiah to let them join their brothers. They didn’t want to be killed. This was exactly what Amalickiah wanted.
Paraphrase
When Amalickiah’s soldiers woke and realized they were surrounded, they begged him to let them join their fellow Lamanites rather than be killed. This was exactly what Amalickiah wanted.