⁴² Then he said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ^(A)‘Because you have let slip out of your hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.’ ”

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.’ ”

⁹ But Saul and the people ^(A)spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.

¹⁹ And the man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck Syria till you had destroyed it! ^(A)But now you will strike Syria only three times.”

¹⁴ But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, with the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, who had come from the battle.

¹⁵ And Moses said to them: “Have you kept ^(A)all the women alive? ¹⁶ Look, ^(B)these women caused the children of Israel, through the ^(C)counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and ^(D)there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. ¹⁷ Now therefore, ^(E)kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately. ¹⁸ But keep alive ^(F)for yourselves all the young girls who have not known a man intimately.