6. And what man is he that has planted a vineyard, and has not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
7. And what man is there that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
8. And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
9. And it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
10. When you come near unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
11. And it shall be, if it makes to you an answer of peace, and opens unto you, then it shall be, that all the people that are found therein shall be subject unto you, and they shall serve you.
12. And if it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:
13. And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword:
14. But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shall you take unto yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.
15. Thus shall you do unto all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
16. But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God does give you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes:
17. But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you:
18. That they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so that you should sin against the LORD your God.