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Deuteronomy 20


Deuteronomy 20 - 1

And if you should go forth to war against your enemies, and you should behold a horse, and rider, and people than you, do not be fearful of them! for your God you, the one bringing you from of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 20 - 2

And it will be whenever you should approach to the war, that drawing near shall speak to the people, and shall say to them,

Deuteronomy 20 - 3

Hear, O Israel! You go today to war with your enemies; do not loosen your heart; do not fear nor be devastated, nor turn aside from their face!

Deuteronomy 20 - 4

For your God, the one going forth with you, he shall join in war with you your enemies, and he shall preserve you.

Deuteronomy 20 - 5

And shall speak to the people, saying, Who is the man building house and did not dedicate it? Let him go and return to his house! lest he die in the war, and man shall dedicate it.

Deuteronomy 20 - 6

And Who is the man whoever plants a vineyard, and was not glad from it? Let him go, and let him return to his house! lest he should die in the war, and man be glad from out of his labor.

Deuteronomy 20 - 7

And who is the man who has espoused a woman, and did not take her? Let him go, and let him return to his house! lest he die in the war, and man shall take her.

Deuteronomy 20 - 8

And shall add to speak to the people, and shall say, Who is the man, the one fearing and timid in the heart? Let him go, and let him return to his house! that he should not make timid the heart of his brother, as he.

Deuteronomy 20 - 9

And it will be whenever should cease speaking to the people, that they shall place rulers of the military taking lead of the people.

Deuteronomy 20 - 10

And if you should come forward to a city to wage war against it, that you should call them forth with peace.

Deuteronomy 20 - 11

And it shall be if then they should peaceably answer you, and open to you, it shall be the people being found in it shall be to you and subjects to you.

Deuteronomy 20 - 12

But if they should not obey you, and should make against and you shall besiege it,

Deuteronomy 20 - 13

and shall deliver into your hands, then you shall strike every male of it by carnage

Deuteronomy 20 - 14

except the women and the belongings. And all the cattle, and all as much as exists in the city, and all the chattel you shall despoil for yourself, and you shall eat all the plunder of your enemy, whom your God gives to you.

Deuteronomy 20 - 15

Thus you shall do for all the cities far away from you exceedingly, which are not from the cities of these nations which your God gives to you to inherit their land.

Deuteronomy 20 - 16

But behold, from the cities of these nations which the your God gives to you to inherit their land, you shall not take alive any one breathing.

Deuteronomy 20 - 17

But you shall devote them to consumption the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and Perizzite, and Hivite, and Jebusite, and Gergesite; in which manner gave charge

Deuteronomy 20 - 18

that they should not teach you to do all their abominations, as many as they made unto their gods, that you shall sin before your God.

Deuteronomy 20 - 19

But if you should besiege around a city days to wage war for taking it, you shall not utterly destroy its trees by putting upon them an iron axe; but of it you shall eat, it down nor is a man the from your presence for the siege mound?

Deuteronomy 20 - 20

But the tree which you know that not this you shall annihilate, and you shall cut it, and shall build a siege mound at the city, whichever makes against until whenever it should be delivered up.