Deuteronomy 20:19

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17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you,

18 lest ^athey teach you to do according to all their¹ abominations which they have done for their gods, and you ^bsin against the Lord your God.

19 “When you besiege a city for a long time, while making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; if you can eat of them, do not cut them down to use in the siege, for the tree of the field is man’s food.

20 Only the trees which you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, to build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.

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Interlinear Bible for Deuteronomy 20:19:

When
kiy (#3588) thou shalt besiege
tsuwr (#6696) a city
`iyr (#5892) a long
rab (#7227) time,
yowm (#3117) in making war
lacham (#3898) against
`al (#5921) it to take
taphas (#8610) it, thou shalt not
lo' (#3808) destroy
shachath (#7843)
'eth (#853) the trees
`ets (#6086) thereof by forcing
nadach (#5080) an axe
garzen (#1631) against
`al (#5921) them: for
kiy (#3588) thou mayest eat
'akal (#398) of
min (#4480) them, and thou shalt not
lo' (#3808) cut them down
karath (#3772) (for
kiy (#3588) the tree
`ets (#6086) of the field
sadeh (#7704) is man's
'adam (#120) life) to employ
bow' (#935) them in the siege:
matsowr (#4692)

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