NET Bible
"This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations."
— Deuteronomy 20:15, NET Bible
“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.”
“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.”
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.
Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you,
so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.