Deuteronomy:20

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* When you go forth to battle against your enemies , and see horses , and chariots , [and ] a people more than you , you will not be afraid of them ; for Yahweh your God is with you , who brought you up out of the land of Egypt . * And it will be , when you (note :){+}(:note ) draw near to the battle , that the priest will approach and speak to the people , * and will say to them , Hear , O Israel , you (note :){+}(:note ) draw near this day to battle against your {+} enemies : don 't let your {+} heart faint ; don 't fear , nor tremble , neither be {+} afraid of them ; * for Yahweh your (note :){+}(:note ) God is he who goes with you {+}, to fight for you {+} against your {+} enemies , to save you {+}. * And the officers will speak to the people , saying , What man is there that has built a new house , and has not dedicated it ? Let him go and return to his house , or else if he dies in the battle , another will man dedicate it . * And what man is there that has planted a vineyard , and has not used its fruit ? Let him go and return to his house , or else if he dies in the battle , another man will use its fruit . * And what man is there that has betrothed a wife , and has not taken her ? Let him go and return to his house , or else if he dies in the battle , another man will take her . * And the officers will speak further to the people , and they will say , What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted ? Let him go and return to his house , lest his brothers ' heart melt as his heart . * And it will be , when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people , that they will appoint captains of hosts at the head of the people . * When you draw near to a city to fight against it , then proclaim peace to it . * And it will be , if it answers peace to you , and opens to you , then it will be , that all the people who are found in it will become slave labor to you , and will serve you . * And if it will not make peace with you , but will make war against you , then you will besiege it : * and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand , you will strike every male of it with the edge of the sword : * but the women , and the little ones , and the cattle , and all that is in the city , even all its spoil , you will take for a prey to yourself ; and you will eat the spoil of your enemies , which Yahweh your God has given you . * Thus you will do to all the cities which are very far off from you , which are not of the cities of these nations . * But of the cities of these peoples , that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance , you will save alive nothing that breathes ; * but you will completely destroy them : the Hittite , and the Amorite , the Canaanite , and the Perizzite , the Hivite , and the Jebusite ; as Yahweh your God has commanded you ; * that they don 't teach you (note :){+}(:note ) to follow all their disgusting behaviors , which they have done to their gods ; so you {+} would sin against Yahweh your {+} God . * When you will besiege a city a long time , in making war against it to take it , you will not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them ; for you may eat of them , and you will not cut them down ; for is the tree of the field man , that it should be besieged of you ? * Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food , you will destroy and cut them down ; and you will build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you , until it falls .

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