New Revised Standard Version
And the LORD sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’

Contemporary English Version
When the LORD sent you on this mission, he told you to wipe out those worthless Amalekites.

New American Bible
and sent you on a mission, saying: Go and put the sinful Amalekites under a ban of destruction. Fight against them until you have exterminated them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the sinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast utterly destroyed them.

And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the sinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast utterly destroyed them.

the sinners

Genesis 13:13 And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.

Genesis 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.

Numbers 16:38 In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial.

Job 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?

Proverbs 10:29 The just shall never be moved: but the wicked shall not dwell on the earth.

Proverbs 13:21 Evil pursueth sinners: and to the just good shall be repaid.