And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it
into thine hands, smite all the males thereof with the edge of the
sword, save the women and the children and the cattle and all that
is in the city and all the spoil thereof take unto thyself and eat
the spoil of thine enemies which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Thus thou shalt do unto all the cities which are a great way off
from thee and not of the cities of these nations. But in the
cities of these nations which the LORD thy God giveth thee to
inherit, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth. But shalt
destroy them without redemption, both the Hethites, the Amorites,
the Cananites, the Pherezites, the Hevites and the Iebusites, as
the LORD thy God hath commanded thee, that they teach you not to
do after all their abominations which they do unto their gods, and
so should sin against the LORD your God. When thou hast besieged a
city long time in making war against it to take it, destroy not
the trees thereof, that thou wouldest thrust an axe unto them. For
thou mayst eat of them, and therefore destroy them not. For the
trees of the fields are no men that they might come against thee
to besiege thee. Neverthelater those trees which thou knowest that
men eat not of them, thou mayst destroy and cut them down and make
bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be
overthrown.
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