15 This is what you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations [a]nearby. 16 (A)Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave anything that breathes alive. 17 Instead, you shall [b]utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 20:15 Lit here
  2. Deuteronomy 20:17 Or put them under the ban

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