Deuteronomy 20:10–18

¹⁰“When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace.^{* 11}If it accepts your terms of peace and surrenders to you, then all the people in it shall serve you at forced labor. ¹²But if it does not accept your terms of peace and makes war against you, then you shall besiege it, ¹³and when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword. ¹⁴You may, however, take as your plunder the women, the children, livestock, and everything else in the town, all its spoil. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you.^{* 15}Thus you shall treat all the towns that are very far from you, which are not towns of these nations here. ¹⁶But as for the towns of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain alive.^{* 17}Indeed, you shall annihilate them—the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—just as the Lord your God has commanded, ¹⁸so that they may not teach you to do all the abhorrent things that they do for their gods and you thus sin against the Lord your God.^*