Deuteronomy 20:15
13 When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
14 But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
16 However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
17 For you must devote them to complete destruction —the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
- KJV
- Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
- WEB
- Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
- ASV
- Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
- DARBY
- Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities that are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
- BLB
- Thus you shall do to all the cities very far from you, which are not from the cities of these nations.
- ÅB
- Slik skal du gjøre med alle de byer som ligger meget langt borte fra deg og ikke hører disse folk til.
- OTB
- Dette er fremgangsmåten du skal følge med alle byene som er langt borte fra deg og ikke tilhører de nærliggende nasjonene.
- B1930
- Således skal du gjøre med alle de byer som ligger meget langt borte fra dig og ikke hører disse folk til.