Chiasm
Deuteronomy 20:19–20
Deuteronomy 20:19–202 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it,
- B 19 thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down
- C 19 (for the tree of the field is man's life)
- B' 20 to employ them in the siege: Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down;
- B 19 thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down
- A' 20 and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued