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Deuteronomy 20:18-20
Lexham English Bible

18 so that they may not teach you to do like all their detestable things that they do for their gods and thereby you sin against Yahweh your God.

19 “If[a] you besiege a town for many days to make war against it in order to seize it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them,[b] for you may eat from them,[c] and so you must not cut them[d] down. Are the trees of the field humans that they should come in siege against you?[e] 20 Only[f] the trees[g] that you know are not fruit trees[h] you may destroy and you may cut down, and you may build siege works against that city that is making war with you until it falls.”[i]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 20:19 Or “when”
  2. Deuteronomy 20:19 Hebrew “it”
  3. Deuteronomy 20:19 Hebrew “it”
  4. Deuteronomy 20:19 Hebrew “it”
  5. Deuteronomy 20:19 Literally “from your face”
  6. Deuteronomy 20:20 Or “But”
  7. Deuteronomy 20:20 Hebrew “tree”
  8. Deuteronomy 20:20 Literally “not a tree of food”
  9. Deuteronomy 20:20 Literally “it to fall”
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