Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Now go and smite Amalek ... The Septuagint, as it were to increase the per-emptoriness of the command has introduced into the text several clauses which were manifestly at first inserted only as explanatory notes in the margin: 'Now go and smite Amalek and Jerim, and all things that are his; thou shalt not turn to advantage aught of his, but shalt utterly destroy him: thou shalt regard him and all his as lying under a curse, and shalt not spare him,' etc.