I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live.
Deuteronomy 20:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Thus you shall treat all the towns that are very far from you, which are not towns of these nations here. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So shall you treat all the cities that are very far off from you, that do not belong to the cities of these nations. American Standard Version (1901) Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. Common English Bible That’s what you must do to all the cities that are located far away from you—specifically, those cities that don’t belong to these nations here. Catholic Public Domain Version So shall you do to all the cities which are at a great distance from you, those which are not among the cities that you shall receive as a possession. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from thee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in possession. |
I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live.
You may, however, take as your plunder the women, the children, livestock, and everything else in the town, all its spoil. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you.
But as for the towns of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain alive.
They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you, so we were in great fear for our lives because of you and did this thing.
They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of the Lord your God, for we have heard a report of him, of all that he did in Egypt