Deuteronomy 20:15

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13 And when the Lord your God delivers it into your hands, ^ayou shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword.

14 But the women, the little ones, ^athe livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourself; and ^byou shall eat the enemies’ plunder which the Lord your God gives you.

15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

16 “But ^aof the cities of these peoples which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive,

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.

Verse Comparison: Deuteronomy 20:15

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American Standard Version
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Amplified® Bible
So shall you treat all the cities that are very far off from you, that do not belong to the cities of these nations.

Contemporary English Version
(SEE 20:10)

Darby English Version
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities that are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Good News Bible
That is how you are to deal with those cities that are far away from the land you will settle in.

King James Version
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

New American Standard Bible
"Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby.

New International Version
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

New King James Version
Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Thus you shall do to all the cities that lie very far from you, which do not consist of the cities of these nations nearby.

Revised Standard Version
Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.

Young's Literal Translation
So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

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