1 Samuel 15:21 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²¹ But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ But the people took from the spoil sheep and oxen, the chief of the things to be utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice unto Jehovah thy God in Gilgal.

Common English Bible

²¹ Yes, the troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder—the very best items placed under the ban—but in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ But the people took some of the spoils, sheep and oxen, as the first-fruits of those things that were slain, to immolate to the Lord their God at Gilgal."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ But the people took of the spoils sheep and oxen, as the firstfruits of those things that were slain, to offer sacrifice to the Lord their God in Galgal.

1 Samuel 15:21 Cross References

Genesis 3:12

The man said, “The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”

Genesis 3:13

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.”

Matthew 26:9

For this ointment might have been sold for a large sum, and given to the poor.”

1 Samuel 15:15

Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.”