9 But Saul and the people had compassion upon Aʹgag and upon the best of the flock and the herd+ and the fat ones* and upon the rams and upon all that was good, and they did not wish to devote them to destruction.+ As for all the goods that were despicable and rejected, these they devoted to destruction.

10 “Cursed be the one that is carrying out the mission of Jehovah neglectfully;+ and cursed be the one that is holding back his sword from blood!