¹⁵ Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive?

³ Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

⁶ kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

¹⁰ Cursed be he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.

⁸ Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, He will be happy who rewards you, As you have served us.

⁹ Happy shall he be, Who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

¹⁴ All the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any who breathed.

⁴⁰ So Joshua struck all the land, the hill-country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.

²⁵ All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

²¹ They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

¹⁶ But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

¹⁷ but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;

¹⁸ that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

¹³ and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

³⁴ We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining: