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Deuteronomy 20:15

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

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  1. Deuteronomy 20:13

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

  2. Deuteronomy 20:14

    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.

  3. Deuteronomy 20:16

    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:

  4. Deuteronomy 20:17

    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:

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.