20When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.H3318H4421H341H7200H5483H7393H5971H7227H3372H3068H430H5927H776H47142When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army.H7126H4421H3548H5066H1696H59713He shall say: "Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be terrified or give way to panic before them.H559H8085H3478H7131H3117H4421H341H3824H7401H3372H2648H6206H64404For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory."H3068H430H1980H3898H341H34675The officers shall say to the army: "Has anyone built a new house and not yet begun to live in it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else may begin to live in it.H7860H1696H5971H559H376H1129H2319H1004H2596H3212H7725H1004H4191H4421H312H376H25966Has anyone planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else enjoy it.H376H5193H3754H2490H3212H7725H1004H4191H4421H312H376H24907Has anyone become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else marry her."H376H781H802H3947H3212H7725H1004H4191H4421H312H376H39478Then the officers shall add, "Is anyone afraid or fainthearted? Let him go home so that the others will not become disheartened too."H7860H1696H3254H5971H559H376H3373H7390H3824H3212H7725H1004H251H3824H4549H38249When the officers have finished speaking to the army, they shall appoint commanders over it.H7860H3615H1696H5971H6485H8269H6635H7218H597110When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.H7126H5892H3898H7121H796511If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you.H6030H7965H6605H5971H4672H4522H564712If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city.H7999H6213H4421H669613When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.H3068H430H5414H3027H5221H2138H6310H271914As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies.H802H2945H929H5892H7998H962H398H7998H341H3068H430H541415This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.H6213H5892H3966H7350H2007H5892H147116However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.H5892H5971H3068H430H5414H5159H2421H539717Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you.H2763H2763H2850H567H3669H6522H2340H2983H3068H430H668018Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God.H3925H6213H8441H6213H430H2398H3068H43019When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them?H6696H5892H7227H3117H3898H8610H7843H6086H5080H1631H398H3772H6086H7704H120H935H6440H469220However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.H6086H3045H6086H3978H7843H3772H1129H4692H5892H6213H4421H3381
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