16. But in the cities of these people which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes.
17. But you shall utterly exterminate them, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded you,
18. So that they may not teach you all the abominable practices they have carried on for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the Lord your God.
19. When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by using an ax on them, for you can eat their fruit; you must not cut them down, for is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you?