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Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in battle and another man dedicate it. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And who [is] the man that has planted a vineyard and has not made it common? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man make it common. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And who [is] the man that has betrothed a woman and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take her. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the authorities have added to speak to the people and said, Who [is] the man that is afraid and tender of heart? Let him go and return to his house, and the heart of his brothers does not melt like his heart. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And it has come to pass, as the authorities finish to speak to the people, that they have appointed princes of the hosts at the head of the people.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then you have called to it for peace, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and it has been, if it answers you [with] peace, and has opened to you, then it has come to pass, all the people who are found in it are for tributaries to you, and have served you. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And if it does not make peace with you, and has made war with you, then you have laid siege against it, <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and your God YHWH has given it into your hand, and you have struck every male of it by the mouth of the sword. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Only, the women, and the infants, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you seize for yourself, and you have eaten the spoil of your enemies which your God YHWH has given to you. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Only, of the cities of these peoples which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance, you do not keep alive any [that are] breathing; <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>for you certainly devote the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as your God YHWH has commanded you, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>so that they do not teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, and you have sinned against your God YHWH.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>When you lay siege to a city [for] many days to fight against it, to capture it, you do not destroy its trees to force an axe against them, for you eat of them, and you do not cut them down—for the tree of the field [is] man’s—to go in at your presence in the siege. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Only, the tree of which you know that it [is] not a fruit-tree, you destroy it, and have cut [it] down, and have built a bulwark against the city which is making war with you until you have subdued it.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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