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Deuteronomy 20:11

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20:11If it accepts your terms15 and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves.16

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  1. 15 Heb “if it answers you peace.”
  2. 16 Heb “become as a vassal and will serve you.” The Hebrew term translated slaves (מַס, mas) refers either to Israelites who were pressed into civil service, especially under Solomon (1 Kgs 5:27; 9:15, 21; 12:18), or (as here) to foreigners forced as prisoners of war to become slaves to Israel. The Gibeonites exemplify this type of servitude (Josh 9:3–27; cf. Josh 16:10; 17:13; Judg 1:28, 30–35; Isa 31:8; Lam 1:1).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, all the people found in it will become forced laborers for you and serve you.

NLTNew Living Translation

If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And then if they accept your terms of peace and they surrender to you, and then all the people inhabiting it shall be forced labor for you, and they shall serve you.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.