but you shall certainly put them under the ban: the Ḥ
And there was strife between the herdsmen of Aḇ
and the Ḥ
and the Amorite, and the Kenaʽ
and the Yeḇ
(Cursed is he who is slack in doing the work of יהוה, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from blood).
“The Amalĕ
“Only, of the cities of these peoples which יהוה your Elohim gives you as an inheritance, you do not keep alive any that breathe,
lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their mighty ones, and you sin against יהוה your Elohim.
“And the city shall be put under the ban, it and all that is in it belongs to יהוה. Only Raḥ
to eat the flesh of sovereigns, and the flesh of commanders, and the flesh of strong ones, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great.”