Deuteronomy 20:10–18

¹⁰“When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall ¹offer it terms of peace.

¹¹“If it ¹agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your ^aforced labor and shall serve you.

¹²“However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it.

¹³“When the Lord your God gives it into your hand, ^ayou shall strike all the ¹men in it with the edge of the sword.

¹⁴“Only the women and the children and ^athe animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall ¹use the spoil of your enemies which the Lord your God has given you.

¹⁵“Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations ¹nearby.

¹⁶“^aOnly in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.

¹⁷“But you shall ¹utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has commanded you,

¹⁸so that they may not teach you to do ^aaccording to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would ^bsin against the Lord your God.