Deuteronomy 20 When thou goest out to battel. agaynst thyne enemyes, & seyst horsses & charettes & people mo then thou, be not aferde of them, for the Lord thy God is wyth the which brought the out of the lande of Egypt.

Matthew⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ When thou goest out to battel. agaynst thyne enemyes, & seyst horsses & charettes & people mo then thou, be not aferde of them, for the Lord thy God is wyth the which brought the out of the lande of Egypt. ² And when ye are come nye vnto battel, let the preast come forth and speake vnto the peopl ³ & say vnto them: Heare Israel, ye are come vnto battel agaynst your enemyes, let not your hartes faynte, neither feare nor be amazed nor a dread of them. ⁴ For the lord thy god goeth with you to fight for you agaynst your enemyes & to saue you. ⁵ And let the offycers speake vnto the people sayinge: If any man haue buylt a new house and haue not dedicate it, let him go and returne to his house lest he dye in the battell, & another dedicate it. ⁶ And yf any man haue planted a vyneyarde & haue not made it comen let him go & returne agayn vnto hys house, lest he dye in the batell and another make it comen. ⁷ And yf any man be betrauthed vnto a wyfe and haue not taken her, let hym go and returne agayn vnto his house, lest he dye in the battel and another take her. ⁸ And let the officers speake further vnto the people and say. If any man feare & be fainte herted, let him go and returne vnto his house lest his brothers hert be made faynte as wel as his. ⁹ And when the offycers haue made an ende of speaking vnto the people, let them make captaynes of warre ouer them. ¹⁰ When thou comest nye vnto a citie to fight against it, offre them peace. ¹¹ And yf they answere the agayne peasably, and open vnto the, then let all the people that is founde therin be tributaries vnto the and serue the. ¹² But & yf they wyll make no peace wyth the, then make warre agaynst the citie and besyege it. ¹³ And when the Lord thy God hath deliuered it into thine handes, smyte al the males therof wyth the egde of the swerde, ¹⁴ saue the wemen and the chyldren and the catel and all that is in the cytie and al the spoyle therof take vnto thy selfe & eate the spoyle of thyne enemyes whych the Lord thy God geueth the. ¹⁵ Thus thou shalt do vnto al the cities whych are a greate waye of from the and not of the cities of these nacions. ¹⁶ But in the cities of these nacions which the Lorde thy God geueth the to enheret, thou shalt saue alyue nothyng that breatheth. ¹⁷ But shalt destroy them with out redempcion, both the Hethites, the Amorites, the Cananites, the Pherezites, the Heuites & the Iebusites, as the Lord thy God hath commaunded the, ¹⁸ that thei teach you not to do after al their abhominacions which they do vnto their goddes, & so should synne agaynst the Lord your God. ¹⁹ When thou hast besyeged a citie long time in making warre against it to take it, destroy not the trees therof, that thou woldest thrust an axe vnto them. For thou mayst eate of them, & therfore destroy them not. For the trees of the feldes are no men, that they might come against the to besyege the. ²⁰ Neuerthelater those trees which thou knowest that men eate not of them thou mayst destroye & cutte them doune and make bulwerkes agaynst the citie that maketh warre with the, vntyl it be ouerthrowne.