12 When, in one of the cities Yah Veh your Elohim gives you to settle, you hear, saying,
13 Men, sons of Beli Yaal, go among you, and drive them who settle the city, saying, Come and serve other elohim whom you know not!
14 - then inquire and probe and ask well; and behold, if it is the truth, and the word established, that such abhorrence is worked among you;
15 in smiting, smite them who settle that city with the mouth of the sword; devote it and all therein and the animals thereof with the mouth of the sword:
16 and gather all the loot thereof midst the wideway thereof; and burn the city and all the loot thereof with fire - totally for Yah Veh your Elohim: and it becomes a heap for eternity; never to be built again.
17 And adhere naught of the devoted to your hand: so that Yah Veh turns from his fuming wrath and gives you mercies; and mercies you and abounds you, as he has oathed to your fathers
18 - when you hearken to the voice of Yah Veh your Elohim - to guard all his misvoth which I misvah you this day - to work what is straight in the eyes of Yah Veh your Elohim.