Deuteronomy 20:10-18

Expanded Bible

¹⁰ When you march up to attack a city, first make them an offer of peace. ¹¹ If they accept your offer and open their gates to you, all the people of that city will ·become your slaves and work for you [serve you in forced labor]. ¹² But if they do not make peace with you and fight you in battle, you should ·surround [besiege] that city. ¹³ The Lord your God will give it ·to you [^Linto your hands]. Then ·kill [^Lstrike] all the men with your swords, ¹⁴ and you may take ·everything else [all the plunder] in the city for yourselves. Take the women, children, and animals, and you may use ·these things [the plunder] the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. ¹⁵ Do this to all the cities that are far away, that do not belong to the nations nearby.

¹⁶ But ·leave nothing alive [^Ldo not let anything that breathes live] in the cities of the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance. ¹⁷ ·Completely destroy [Devote to the Lord; Josh. 6:17] these people: the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded. ¹⁸ Otherwise, they will teach you what they do for their gods, and if you do these ·hateful [detestable; abhorrent; abominable] things, you will sin against the Lord your God.