Deuteronomy:20-21
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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 .
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And it shall be ,
when ye are come nigh unto the battle ,
that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people ,
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And shall say unto them ,
Hear ,
O Israel Yisra #
el #,
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 ;
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For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you ,
to fight for you against your enemies ,
to save you .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And the officers shall speak further unto the people ,
and they shall say ,
What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted rak #?
let him go and return unto his house ,
lest his brethrens heart faint as well as his heart .
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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 .
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When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it ,
then proclaim peace unto it .
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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 .
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And if it will make no peace with thee ,
but will make war against thee ,
then thou shalt besiege it :
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And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands ,
thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword :
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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 .
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Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee ,
which are not of the cities of these nations .
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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 :
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But thou shalt utterly destroy them ;
namely ,
the Hittites ,
and the Amorites ,
the Canaanites K @
na #
aniy #,
and the Perizzites ,
the Hivites ,
and the Jebusites ;
as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee :
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That they teach you not to do after all their abominations tow #
ebah #,
which they have done unto their gods ;
so should ye sin against the LORD your God .
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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 axe against them :
for thou mayest eat of them ,
and thou shalt not cut them down (
for the tree of the field is mans life )
to employ them in the siege paniym #:
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Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat ma #
akal #,
thou shalt destroy and cut them down ;
and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee ,
until it be subdued .
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If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it ,
lying in the field ,
and it be not known who hath slain him :
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Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth ,
and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain :
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And it shall be ,
that the city which is next unto the slain man ,
even the elders of that city shall take an heifer baqar #,
which hath not been wrought with ,
and which hath not drawn in the yoke ;
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And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley ,
which is neither eared nor sown ,
and shall strike offthe heifers neck there in the valley :
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And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near ;
for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him ,
and to bless in the name of the LORD ;
and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried :
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And all the elders of that city ,
that are next unto the slain man ,
shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley :
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And they shall answer and say ,
Our hands have not shed this blood ,
neither have our eyes seen it .
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Be merciful ,
O LORD ,
unto thy people Israel Yisra #
el #,
whom thou hast redeemed ,
and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israels charge .
And the blood shall be forgiven them .
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So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you ,
when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD .
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When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies ,
and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands ,
and thou hast taken them captive ,
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And seest among the captives a beautiful #
H3303woman ,
and hast a desire unto her ,
that thou wouldest have her to thy wife ;
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Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house ;
and she shall shave her head ro #
sh #,
and pare her nails ;
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And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her ,
and shall remain in thine house ,
and bewail her father and her mother a full month :
and after that thou shalt go in unto her ,
and be her husband ,
and she shall be thy wife .
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And it shall be ,
if thou have no delight in her ,
then thou shalt let her go whither she will ;
but thou shalt not sell her at all for money ,
thou shalt not make merchandise of her ,
because thou hast humbled her .
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If a man have two wives ,
one beloved ,
and another hated ,
and they have born him children ,
both the beloved and the hated ;
and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated :
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Then it shall be ,
when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath ,
that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated ,
which is indeed the firstborn :
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But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn ,
by giving him a double portion of all that he hath :
for he is the beginning of his strength ;
the right of the firstborn is his .
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If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son ,
which will not obey the voice of his father ,
or the voice of his mother ,
and that ,
when they have chastened him ,
will not hearken unto them :
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Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him ,
and bring him out unto the elders of his city ,
and unto the gate of his place ;
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And they shall say unto the elders of his city ,
This our son is stubborn and rebellious ,
he will not obey our voice ;
he is a glutton ,
and a drunkard .
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And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones ,
that he die :
so shalt thou putevil away from among you ;
and all Israel shall hear ,
and fear .
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And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death ,
and he be to be put to death ,
and thou hang him on a tree :
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His body shall not remain all night upon the tree ,
but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day ; (
for he that is hanged is accursed of God ; )
that thy land be not defiled ,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance .
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Thou shalt not see thy brothers ox or his sheep go astray ,
and hide thyself from them :
thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother .