World English Bible
"that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God."
— Deuteronomy 20:18, World English Bible
“That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.”
“that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would ye sin against Jehovah your God. ”
“so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.”
“Lest they teach you to do all the abominations which they have done to their gods: and you should sin against the Lord your God.”
“So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.”
“That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.”
Thus you shall 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 peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?
Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.