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13 And Yahweh your God will give it into your hand, and you shall kill all its males with the edge[a] of the sword. 14 Only the women and the little children and the domestic animals[b] and all that shall be in the city, all of its spoil you may loot for yourselves, and you may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that Yahweh you God has given to you. 15 Thus you shall do to all the far[c] cities from you, which are not from the cities of these nations located nearby.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 20:13 Literally “mouth”
  2. Deuteronomy 20:14 Hebrew “animal”
  3. Deuteronomy 20:15 Or “distant”
  4. Deuteronomy 20:15 Literally “here”

13 When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.(A) 14 As for the women, the children, the livestock(B) and everything else in the city,(C) you may take these as plunder(D) for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. 15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance(E) from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

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