Verse 15

Deuteronomy 20:15

Bible in Basic English

15 So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.

Original Language Text

hebrew

כֵּ֤ן תַּעֲשֶׂה֙ לְ/כָל הֶ֣/עָרִ֔ים הָ/רְחֹקֹ֥ת מִמְּ/ךָ֖ מְאֹ֑ד אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹא מֵ/עָרֵ֥י הַ/גּֽוֹיִם הָ/אֵ֖לֶּה הֵֽנָּה

English Translation

Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

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Chapter 20 Context

1 When you go out to war against other nations, and come face to face with horses and war-carriages an... Focus ↗

2 And when you are on the point of attacking, let the priest come forward and say to the people, Focus ↗

3 Give ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the fight; let your heart be strong; do not let u... Focus ↗

4 For the Lord your God (Elohim) goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who... Focus ↗

5 And let the overseers say to the people, If there is any man who has made for himself a new house an... Focus ↗

6 Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his h... Focus ↗

7 Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his ho... Focus ↗

8 And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart is feeble with fea... Focus ↗

9 Then, after saying these words to the people, let the overseers put captains over the army. Focus ↗

10 When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace. Focus ↗

11 And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may... Focus ↗

12 If however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on all sides: Focus ↗

13 And when the Lord your God (Elohim) has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to dea... Focus ↗

14 But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may... Focus ↗

15 So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.

16 But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God (Elohim) is giving you for your herit... Focus ↗

17 Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and t... Focus ↗

18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the... Focus ↗

19 If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and mad... Focus ↗

20 Only those trees which you are certain are not used for food may be cut down and put to destruction:... Focus ↗

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