Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Deuteronomy 20:15
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This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
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Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities [which are] very far off from thee, which [are] not of the cities of these nations.
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Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
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Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
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Deuteronomy 20
13 When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
14 But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
16 However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
17 For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,
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