Deuteronomy 24:6Catholic Public Domain VersionYou shall not accept an upper or lower millstone as collateral. For then he will have placed his life with you. See the chapter |
When you will have besieged a city for a long time, and you will have encircled it with fortifications, so that you may fight against it, you shall not cut down trees from which one is able to eat, neither shall you cause devastation with axes to the surrounding region. For it is a tree, and not a man. It is not able to increase the number of those who are fighting against you.