Survey: What are the ten worst Bible verses?

In second place is the order by Samuel, one of the early leaders of the Israelites, for his people to commit genocide: “This is what the Lord Almighty says … ‘Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” (1 Samuel xv, 3).

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Moses’s indictment of witchcraft, in Exodus xxii, 18 came third: “Do not allow a sorceress to live.”

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