13. And when the Lord your God has delivered it into your hands, you are to slay every male there with the edge of the sword.
14. But the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, all the spoil within, you are to take to yourself, and you will eat the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you.
15. Thus you are to do to all the cities which are far away, which are not the cities of these nearby nations.
16. But of the cities of these people, which the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
17. But you shall completely destroy them: namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, just as the Lord your God has commanded you,
18. so that they do not teach you to participate in all their abominations, which they have done to their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.
19. When you lay siege to a city for a long time, in making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy the trees there by chopping them down with an axe, for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. For the tree of the field is not a man in which to lay siege.
20. However, you may destroy and cut down only the trees which you know are not fruit trees, so that you may build siege engines against the city that makes war with you until it falls.