And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, [that] all the people [that is] found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee (20:11)

And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: (20:12)

And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: (20:13)

But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, [even] all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee (20:14)

Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities [which are] very far off from thee, which [are] not of the cities of these nations (20:15)

But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee [for] an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: (20:16)

But thou shalt utterly destroy them; [namely], the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee: (20:17)

That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God (20:18)

When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an ax against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field [is] man's [life]) to employ [them] in the siege: (20:19)

Only the trees which thou knowest that they [be] not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued (20:20)

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