20:1
si exieris ad bellum contra hostes tuos et viderisequitatum et currus et maiorem quam tu habes adversariiexercitus multitudinem non timebis eos quia Dominus Deus tuustecum est qui eduxit te de terra Aegypti

20:2
adpropinquante autem iam proelio stabit sacerdos ante aciemet sic loquetur ad populum

20:3
audi Israhel vos hodie contra inimicos vestros pugnamcommittitis non pertimescat cor vestrum nolite metuere nolitecedere nec formidetis eos

20:4
quia Dominus Deus vester in medio vestri est et pro vobiscontra adversarios dimicabit ut eruat vos de periculo

20:5
duces quoque per singulas turmas audiente exercituproclamabunt quis est homo qui aedificavit domum novam et nondedicavit eam vadat et revertatur in domum suam ne fortemoriatur in bello et alius dedicet illam

20:6
quis est homo qui plantavit vineam et necdum eam fecit essecommunem et de qua vesci omnibus liceat vadat et revertatur indomum suam ne forte moriatur in bello et alius homo eiusfungatur officio

20:7
quis est homo qui despondit uxorem et non accepit eam vadatet revertatur in domum suam ne forte moriatur in bello et aliushomo accipiat eam

20:8
his dictis addent reliqua et loquentur ad populum quis esthomo formidolosus et corde pavido vadat et revertatur in domumsuam ne pavere faciat corda fratrum suorum sicut ipse timoreperterritus est

20:9
cumque siluerint exercitus duces et finem loquendi fecerintunusquisque suos ad bellandum cuneos praeparabit

20:10
si quando accesseris ad expugnandam civitatem offeres eiprimum pacem

20:11
si receperit et aperuerit tibi portas cunctus populus quiin ea est salvabitur et serviet tibi sub tributo

20:12
sin autem foedus inire noluerint et receperint contra tebellum obpugnabis eam

20:13
cumque tradiderit Dominus Deus tuus illam in manu tuapercuties omne quod in ea generis masculini est in ore gladii

20:14
absque mulieribus et infantibus iumentis et ceteris quaein civitate sunt omnem praedam exercitui divides et comedes despoliis hostium tuorum quae Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi

20:15
sic facies cunctis civitatibus quae a te procul valde suntet non sunt de his urbibus quas in possessionem accepturus es

20:16
de his autem civitatibus quae dabuntur tibi nullum omninopermittes vivere

20:17
sed interficies in ore gladii Hettheum videlicet etAmorreum et Chananeum Ferezeum et Eveum et Iebuseum sicutpraecepit tibi Dominus Deus tuus

20:18
ne forte doceant vos facere cunctas abominationes quasipsi operati sunt diis suis et peccetis in Dominum Deum vestrum

20:19
quando obsederis civitatem multo tempore et munitionibuscircumdederis ut expugnes eam non succides arbores de quibusvesci potest nec securibus per circuitum debes vastare regionemquoniam lignum est et non homo nec potest bellantium contra teaugere numerum

20:20
si qua autem ligna non sunt pomifera sed agrestia et inceteros apta usus succide et extrue machinas donec capiascivitatem quae contra te dimicat

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020:001
When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

020:002
And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

020:003
And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

020:004
For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

020:005
And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

020:006
And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

020:007
And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

020:008
And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.

020:009
And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.

020:010
When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

020:011
And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

020:012
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

020:013
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

020:014
But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

020:015
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

020:016
But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

020:017
But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:

020:018
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.

020:019
When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:

020:020
Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.

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