When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the Lord thy God [is] with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt (20:1)

And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people, (20:2)

And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them; (20:3)

For the Lord your God [is] he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you (20:4)

And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man [is there] that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it (20:5)

And what man [is he] that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not [yet] eaten of it? let him [also] go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it (20:6)

And what man [is there] that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her (20:7)

And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man [is there that is] fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart (20:8)

And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people (20:9)

When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it (20:10)

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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