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Deuteronomy 20:16

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Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations

20:16As for the cities of these peoples that18 the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing19 to survive.

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Footnotes

  1. 18 The antecedent of the relative pronoun is “cities.”
  2. 19 Heb “any breath.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

NLTNew Living Translation

In those towns that the Lord your God is giving you as a special possession, destroy every living thing.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But 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.

KJV 1900King James Version

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: