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When thou
goest out to battle against thine enemies, and
seest horses, and chariots, and a people more
than thou, be not afraid of them: for the Lord
thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out
of the land of Egypt.
02 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto
the battle, that the priest shall approach and
speak unto the people,
03 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye
approach this day unto battle against your
enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and
do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because
of them;
04 For the Lord your God is he that goeth with
you, to fight for you against your enemies, to
save you.
05 And the officers shall speak unto the people,
saying, What man is there that hath built a new
house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and
return to his house, lest he die in the battle,
and another man dedicate it.
06 And what man is he that hath planted a
vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him
also go and return unto his house, lest he die in
the battle, and another man eat of it.
07 And what man is there that hath betrothed a
wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and
return unto his house, lest he die in the battle,
and another man take her.
08 And the officers shall speak further unto the
people, and they shall say, What man is there
that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and
return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart
faint as well as his heart.
09 And it shall be, when the officers have made
an end of speaking unto the people that they
shall make captains of the armies to lead the
people.
10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight
against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
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11 And it shall be, if it make
thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it
shall be, that all the people that is found
therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they
shall serve thee.
12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but
will make war against thee, then thou shalt
besiege it:
13 And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it
into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male
thereof with the edge of the sword:
14 But the women, and the little ones, and the
cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the
spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and
thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which
the Lord thy God hath given thee.
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:
18 That they teach you not to do after all their
abominations, which they have done unto their
gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.
19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in
making war against it to take it, thou shalt not
destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe
against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and
thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the
field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be
not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut
them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against
the city that maketh war with thee, until it be
subdued.
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