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Deuteronomy 20:13-17

Deuteronomy 20:13

When the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword.

Deuteronomy 20:14

However, the women, the children, the animals, and everything that is in the city, all of its spoils, you shall take as plunder for yourself; and you shall use the spoils of your enemies which the Lord your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 20:15

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 nearby.

Deuteronomy 20:16

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.

Deuteronomy 20:17

Instead, you shall 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,