Catholic Public Domain Version
"So shall you do to all the cities which are at a great distance from you, those which are not among the cities that you shall receive as a possession. "
— Deuteronomy 20:15, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.”
“Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. ”
“Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.”
“This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.”
“So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from thee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in possession.”
“So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.”
“Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.”
But if they are not willing to enter into an agreement, and they begin to act against you in warfare, then you shall besiege it.
And when the Lord your God will have delivered it into your hands, you shall strike down anyone who is in it, of the male gender, with the edge of the sword,
but not the women and young children, nor the cattle and the other things that are within the city. And you shall divide all the plunder to the soldiers, and you shall eat the spoils from your enemies, which the Lord your God will give to you.
So shall you do to all the cities which are at a great distance from you, those which are not among the cities that you shall receive as a possession.
But among those cities which shall be given to you, you shall not permit anyone at all to live.
Instead, you shall put them to death with the edge of the sword, specifically: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite, the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you.
Otherwise, they may teach you to do all the abominations which they have committed for their own gods. And then you would sin against the Lord your God.