05:020:012 And if it will make no peace with thee,
but will make war
against
thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
05:020:013 And when the lord thy God hath delivered
it into thine hands,
thou
shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the
sword:
05:020:014 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.
05:020:015 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities
which are very far off
from
thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
05:020:016 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:
05:020:017 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:
05:020:018 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.
05:020:019 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:
05:020:020 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.
05:021:001 If one be found slain in the land which
the lord thy God
giveth
thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not
known
who hath slain him:
05:021:002 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come
forth, and they
shall
measure unto the cities which are round about him that
is
slain:
05:021:003 And it shall be, that the city which is
next unto the slain
man,
even the elders of that city shall take an heifer,
which
hath
not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in
the
yoke;
05:021:004 And the elders of that city shall bring
down the heifer unto a
rough
valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall
strike
off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:
05:021:005 And the priests the sons of Levi shall
come near; for them the
lord
thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless
in
the
name of the lord; and by their word shall every
controversy
and every stroke be tried:


