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 20:1  When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and
seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than thou, be
not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee, which
brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
 20:2  And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle,
that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
 20:3  And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach
this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts
faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified
because of them;
 20:4  For the LORD your God [is] he that goeth with you, to
fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
 20:5  And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying,
What man [is there] that hath built a new house, and hath not
dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die
in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
 20:6  And what man [is he] that hath planted a vineyard, and
hath not [yet] eaten of it? let him [also] go and return unto
his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of
it.
 20:7  And what man [is there] that hath betrothed a wife, and
hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest
he die in the battle, and another man take her.
 20:8  And the officers shall speak further unto the people,
and they shall say, What man [is there that is] fearful and
fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his
brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
 20:9  And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of
speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the
armies to lead the people.
 20:10  When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it,
then proclaim peace unto it.
 20:11  And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and
open unto thee, then it shall be, [that] all the people [that
is] found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they
shall serve thee.
 20:12  And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make
war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
 20:13  And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine
hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the
sword:
 20:14  But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and
all that is in the city, [even] all the spoil thereof, shalt
thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine
enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
 20:15  Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities [which are] very
far off from thee, which [are] not of the cities of these
nations.
 20:16  But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy
God doth give thee [for] an inheritance, thou shalt save alive
nothing that breatheth:
 20:17  But thou shalt utterly destroy them; [namely], the
Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites,
the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath
commanded thee:
 20:18  That they teach you not to do after all their
abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should
ye sin against the LORD your God.
 20:19  When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making
war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees
thereof by forcing an ax against them: for thou mayest eat of
them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the
field [is] man's [life]) to employ [them] in the siege:
 20:20  Only the trees which thou knowest that they [be] not
trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou
shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with
thee, until it be subdued.