- However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
- Completely destroy them--the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites--as the LORD your God has commanded you.
- Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God.
- When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees of the field people, that you should besiege them?
- However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.
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- 但這些國民的城、耶和華你 神既賜你為業、其中凡有氣息的、一個不可存留、
- 只要照耶和華你 神所吩咐的、將這赫人、亞摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人、都滅絕淨盡.
- 免得他們教導你們學習一切可憎惡的事、就是他們向自己神所行的、以致你們得罪耶和華你們的 神。
- 你若許久圍困攻打所要取的一座城、就不可舉斧子砍壞樹木、因為你可以喫那樹上的果子、不可砍伐.田間的樹木豈是人、叫你糟蹋麼。
- 惟獨你所知道不是結果子的樹木、可以毀壞砍伐、用以修築營壘、攻擊那與你打仗的城、直到攻塌了。
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