If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, all the people found in it will become forced labourers for you and serve you.
Deuteronomy 20:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised However, if it does not make peace with you but wages war against you, lay siege to it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if it refuses to make peace with you and fights against you, then you shall besiege it. American Standard Version (1901) And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: Common English Bible However, if the city does not negotiate peacefully with you but makes war against you, you may attack it. Catholic Public Domain Version But if they are not willing to enter into an agreement, and they begin to act against you in warfare, then you shall besiege it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But if they will not make peace, and shall begin war against thee, thou shalt besiege it. |
If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, all the people found in it will become forced labourers for you and serve you.
When the Lord your God hands it over to you, strike down all its males with the sword.