Then I gave them my statutes and explained my ordinances to them #– #the person who does them will live by them.
Deuteronomy 20:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and are not among the cities of these nations. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Then I gave them my statutes and explained my ordinances to them #– #the person who does them will live by them.
But you may take the women, dependents, animals, and whatever else is in the city #– #all its spoil #– #as plunder. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that the Lord your God has given you.
However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
The Gibeonites answered him, ‘It was clearly communicated to your servants 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. We greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we did this.
They replied to him, ‘Your servants have come from a faraway land because of the reputation of the Lord your God. For we have heard of his fame, and all that he did in Egypt,