NET Bible
"The LORD your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword."
— Deuteronomy 20:13, NET Bible
“And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:”
“and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: ”
“and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:”
“And when the Lord thy God shall deliver it into thy hands, thou shalt slay all that are therein of the male sex, with the edge of the sword,”
“And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.”
“And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:”
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.
This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.
Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations As for the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.