NET Bible
"If it accepts your terms and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves."
— Deuteronomy 20:11, NET Bible
“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.”
“And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that are found therein shall become tributary unto thee, and shall serve thee. ”
“It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.”
“If they receive it, and open the gates to thee, all the people that are therein, shall be saved, and shall serve thee paying tribute.”
“And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants.”
“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.”
In addition, the officers are to say to the troops,“Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier’s heart as fearful as his own.”
Then, when the officers have finished speaking, they must appoint unit commanders to lead the troops.
When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.
If it accepts your terms and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves.
If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.
The LORD your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.
However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city– all its plunder– you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the LORD your God has given you.