and the Lord your God shall deliver them into your hands, then you shall smite them; you shall utterly destroy them: you shall not make a covenant with them, neither shall you pity them;

And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, so should you be an accursed thing like it; you shall utterly detest it, and altogether abominate it, because it is an accursed thing.

[Of these] you shall not take anything alive;

that they may not teach you to do all their abominations, which they did to their gods, and [so] you should sin before the Lord your God.

And every dedicated thing which a man shall dedicate to the Lord of all that he has, whether man or beast, or of the field of his possession, he shall not sell it, nor redeem it: every devoted thing shall be most holy to the Lord.

And whatever shall be dedicated of men, shall not be ransomed, but shall be surely put to death.

And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If you will deliver this people into my power, I will devote it and its cities [to You].

And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered the Canaanite into his power; and [Israel] devoted him and his cities, and they called the name of that place Anathema.

The people have sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made with them; they have stolen from the accursed thing, and put it into their store.

And those that fell in that day, men and women, were twelve thousand: [they killed] all the inhabitants of Ai.

[This translation omits this verse.]

And they answered Joshua, saying, It was reported to us what the Lord your God commanded His servant Moses, to give you this land, and to destroy us and all that dwelt on it from before you, and we feared very much for our lives because of you, and [therefore] we did this thing.

And the children of Israel took all its spoils to themselves; and they killed all the men with the edge of the sword, and they destroyed them; they left not one of them breathing.

And now go, and you shall strike Amalek and Hierim and all that belongs to him, and you shall not save anything of his alive, but you shall utterly destroy him. And you shall devote him and all his [to destruction], and you shall spare nothing belonging to him; and you shall slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, calf and sheep, camel and donkey.

And he took Agag the king of Amalek alive, and he killed all the people and Hierim with the edge of the sword.

And Saul and all the people saved Agag alive, and the best of the flocks, and of the herds, and of the fruits, of the vineyards, and of all the good things; and they would not destroy them. But every worthless and despised thing they destroyed.