Deuteronomy 20:11-16 — Legacy Standard Bible

¹¹“Now it will be that if it ¹agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your ^aforced labor and shall serve you. ¹²“However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. ¹³“And Yahweh your God shall give it into your hand, ^aand you shall strike all the males in it with the edge of the sword. ¹⁴“Only the women and the little ones and ^athe animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourself; and you shall consume the spoil of your enemies which Yahweh your God has given you. ¹⁵“Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations ¹nearby. ¹⁶“^aOnly in the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.