Deuteronomy 13:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ you shall put the inhabitants of that town to the sword, utterly destroying it and everything in it, even putting its livestock to the sword.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ You shall surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly and all who are in it and its beasts with the edge of the sword.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ you must completely strike down the inhabitants of that city with the sword. Place it and all that is in it under the ban. Put its animals to the sword.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ you shall promptly strike down the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword. And you shall destroy it, along with all the things that are in it, even the flocks.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all things that are in it, even the cattle.

Deuteronomy 13:15 Cross References

Ezra 10:16

Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of families, according to their families, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter.

Exodus 22:20

“Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the Lord alone shall be devoted to destruction.

Exodus 23:24

you shall not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices, but you shall utterly demolish them and break their pillars in pieces.

Leviticus 27:28

“Nothing that a person owns that has been devoted to destruction for the Lord, be it human or animal or inherited landholding, may be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 13:14

then you shall inquire and make a thorough investigation. If the charge is established that such an abhorrent thing has been done among you,

Deuteronomy 13:5

But those prophets or those who divine by dreams shall be put to death for having spoken treason against the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to turn you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Deuteronomy 17:4

and if it is reported to you or you hear of it, and you make a thorough inquiry, and the charge is proved true that such an abhorrent thing has occurred in Israel,

Deuteronomy 2:34

At that time we captured all his towns, and in each town we utterly destroyed men, women, and children. We left not a single survivor.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You shall devour all the peoples that the Lord your God is giving over to you, showing them no pity; you shall not serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you defeat them, then you must utterly destroy them. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy.

Joshua 6:24

They burned down the city and everything in it; only the silver and gold and the vessels of bronze and iron they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.

Revelation 17:16

And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the whore; they will make her desolate and naked; they will devour her flesh and burn her up with fire.

Judges 20:3

(Now the Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites said, “Tell us, how did this criminal act come about?”

Judges 20:48

Meanwhile, the Israelites turned back against the Benjaminites and put them to the sword—the city, the people, the animals, and all that remained. Also the remaining towns they set on fire.