¹⁶ “But ^(A)of the cities of these peoples which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive, ¹⁷ but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you, ¹⁸ lest ^(B)they teach you to do according to all their ^[a]abominations which they have done for their gods, and you ^(C)sin against the Lord your God.

¹⁰ So the congregation sent out there twelve thousand of their most valiant men, and commanded them, saying, ^(A)“Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, including the women and children.

³ Now go and ^(A)attack^[a] Amalek, and ^(B)utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”