Deuteronomy 20:15-17
Living Bible
15 These instructions apply only to distant cities, not to those in the Promised Land itself.[a]
16 “For in the cities within the boundaries of the Promised Land you are to save no one; destroy every living thing. 17 Utterly destroy the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. This is the commandment of the Lord your God.
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- Deuteronomy 20:15 not to those in the Promised Land itself, literally, “which are not of the cities of these nations.”
Deuteronomy 20:15-17
King James Version
15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
16 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:
17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:
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