¹⁰“When you approach a city to fight against it, you must offer it peace.ⁿ ¹¹And then^o if they accept your terms of peace^p and they surrender to you,^q and then^r all the people inhabiting it^s shall be forced labor for you, and they shall serve you. ¹²But if they do not accept your terms of peace^t and they want to make war with you, then you shall lay siege against it.^u ¹³And Yahweh your God will give it into your hand, and you shall kill all its males with the edge^v of the sword. ¹⁴Only the women and the little children and the domestic animals^w and all that shall be in the city, all of its spoil you may loot for yourselves, and you may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that Yahweh your God has given to you. ¹⁵Thus you shall do to all the far^x cities from you, which are not from the cities of these nations located nearby.^y

¹⁶But from the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, you shall not let anything live that breathes.^z ¹⁷Rather, you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittites^a and the Amorites,^b the Canaanites^c and the Perizzites,^d the Hivites,^e and the Jebusites,^f just as Yahweh your God has commanded you, ¹⁸so that they may not teach you to do like all their detestable things that they do for their gods and thereby you sin against Yahweh your God.

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Footnotes

nLiterally “you should call it for peace”
oLiterally “And it will happen”
pLiterally “if peace they reply to you”
qLiterally “they open to you”
rLiterally “and it will happen”
sLiterally “being found in it”
tLiterally “not they make peace with you”
uThat is, the city
vLiterally “mouth”
wHebrew “animal”
xOr “distant”
yLiterally “here”
zOr “is alive”
aHebrew “Hittite”
bHebrew “Amorite”
cHebrew “Canaanite”
dHebrew “Perizzite”
eHebrew “Hivite”
fHebrew “Jebusite”