1 When you go forth to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots, and a people more than you, you will not be afraid of them, for Jehovah your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
2 And it will be, when you* draw near to the battle, that the priest will approach and speak to the people, 3 and will say to them, Hear, O Israel, you* draw near this day to battle against your* enemies. Do not let your* heart faint. Do not fear, nor tremble, neither be you* frightened at them. 4 For Jehovah your* God is he who goes with you*, to fight for you* against your* enemies, to save you*.
5 And the officers will speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.
6 And what man is there who has planted a vineyard and has not used the fruit of it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man use the fruit of it.
7 And what man is there who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.
8 And the officers will speak further to the people and they will say, What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart.
9 And it will be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they will appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.
10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. 11 And it will be, if it makes to you an answer of peace and opens to you, then it will be, that all the people that are found in it will become forced-labor to you and will serve you.
12 And if it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you will besiege it. 13 And when Jehovah your God delivers it into your hand, you will kill* every male of it with the edge of the sword, 14 but the women and the little ones and the cattle and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, you will take for a prey to yourself. And you will eat the spoil of your enemies, which Jehovah your God has given you.
15 Thus you will do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, you will save alive nothing that breathes, 17 but you will utterly destroy them–the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite–as Jehovah your God has commanded you, 18 that they not teach you* to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods, so you* would sin against Jehovah your* God.
19 When you will besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you will not destroy the trees of it by wielding an axe against them, for you may eat of them. And you will not cut them down, for is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you? 20 Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you will destroy and cut them down. And you will build ramparts against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.
2 And it will be, when you* draw near to the battle, that the priest will approach and speak to the people, 3 and will say to them, Hear, O Israel, you* draw near this day to battle against your* enemies. Do not let your* heart faint. Do not fear, nor tremble, neither be you* frightened at them. 4 For Jehovah your* God is he who goes with you*, to fight for you* against your* enemies, to save you*.
5 And the officers will speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.
6 And what man is there who has planted a vineyard and has not used the fruit of it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man use the fruit of it.
7 And what man is there who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.
8 And the officers will speak further to the people and they will say, What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart.
9 And it will be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they will appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.
10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. 11 And it will be, if it makes to you an answer of peace and opens to you, then it will be, that all the people that are found in it will become forced-labor to you and will serve you.
12 And if it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you will besiege it. 13 And when Jehovah your God delivers it into your hand, you will kill* every male of it with the edge of the sword, 14 but the women and the little ones and the cattle and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, you will take for a prey to yourself. And you will eat the spoil of your enemies, which Jehovah your God has given you.
15 Thus you will do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, you will save alive nothing that breathes, 17 but you will utterly destroy them–the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite–as Jehovah your God has commanded you, 18 that they not teach you* to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods, so you* would sin against Jehovah your* God.
19 When you will besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you will not destroy the trees of it by wielding an axe against them, for you may eat of them. And you will not cut them down, for is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you? 20 Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you will destroy and cut them down. And you will build ramparts against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.