Deuteronomy 20:17-19

Legacy Standard Bible

¹⁷ But you shall devote them to destruction, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you, ¹⁸ so that they may not teach you to do ^(A)according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, so that you would ^(B)sin against Yahweh your God.

¹⁹ “If you besiege a city for many days, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. ^[a]For is the tree of the field a man, that it should ^[b]be besieged by you?