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Deuteronomy 20:10-15

Rules for Engaging Distant Cities

Deuteronomy 20:10-15
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"When you advance on a town to attack it, first offer it terms for peace.
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If it accepts the terms for peace and opens its gates to you, then all the people there are to be put to forced labor and work for you.
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However, if they refuse to make peace with you but prefer to make war against you, you are to put it under siege.
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When ADONAI your God hands it over to you, you are to put every male to the sword.
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However, you are to take as booty for yourself the women, the little ones, the livestock, and everything in the city - all its spoil. Yes, you will feed on your enemies' spoil, which ADONAI your God has given you.
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This is what you are to do to all the towns which are at a great distance from you, which are not the towns of these nations.
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