^12 (A)The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me some of the fruit of the tree, and I ate.” ¹³ Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” And the woman said, “^(B)The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

²² And Aaron said, “Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself, ^(A)that they are ^[a]prone to evil. ²³ For ^(B)they said to me, ‘Make ^[b]a god for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we do not know what happened to him.’

⁹ But Saul and the people ^(A)spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the more valuable animals, the lambs, and everything that was good, and were unwilling to destroy them completely; but everything despicable and weak, that they completely destroyed.

²¹ But ^(A)the people took some of the spoils, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the things designated for destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God at Gilgal.”