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When thou shalt come nigh unto a city, to fight against it, - then shalt thou proclaim unto it - peace,

and it shall be if peace, be the answer it giveth thee, and it open unto thee, then shall it be, that, all the people that are found therein, shall become thy tributaries and shall serve thee.

But if it will not make peace with thee, but will make war with thee, then shalt thou lay siege to it;

and Yahweh thy God will deliver it into thy hand, - and thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword;

but the women and the little ones and the cattle and all that shall be in the city - all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take as thy prey, - so shalt thou eat the spoil of thine enemies, whom Yahweh thy God hath delivered unto thee.

Thus, shalt thou do unto all the cities that are very far away from thee, - which are not of the cities of those nations.

But of the cities of these peoples which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee as an inheritance, shalt thou not save alive, any breathing thing.

But thou shalt devote them to destruction - the Hittites and the Amorites the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, - as Yahweh thy God hath commanded thee:

lest they teach you to do, according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, - and so ye sin against Yahweh your God.