American King James Version
"But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God does give you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes: "
— Deuteronomy 20:16, American King James Version
“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:”
“But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth; ”
“But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;”
“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.”
“But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live:”
“But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:”
“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:”
And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shall you take to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.
Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God does give you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes:
But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you:
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so should you sin against the LORD your God. ¶
When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an ax against them: for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege: