¹⁰‘When thou drawest near unto a city to fight against it, then thou hast called unto it for Peace, ¹¹and it hath been, if Peace it answer thee, and hath opened to thee, then it hath come to pass—all the people who are found in it are to thee for tributaries, and have served thee.

¹²‘And if it doth not make peace with thee, and hath made with thee war, then thou hast laid siege against it, ¹³and Jehovah thy God hath given it into thy hand, and thou hast smitten every male of it by the mouth of the sword. ¹⁴Only, the women, and the infants, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, thou dost seize for thyself, and thou hast eaten the spoil of thine enemies which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee. ¹⁵So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

¹⁶‘Only, of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee for an inheritance, thou dost not keep alive any breathing; ¹⁷for thou dost certainly devote the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, ¹⁸so that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their gods, and ye have sinned against Jehovah your God.

Read in Logos

Public Domain.