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"When you besiege a city for a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, so you shall not cut them down. For ^(F1)is the tree of the field a human, that it should ^(F2)be besieged by you?

"Only the trees that you know ^(F1)are not fruit trees you shall destroy and cut down, so that you may construct siegeworks against the city that is making war against you until it falls.