14. and you may take everything else in the city for yourselves. Take the women, children, and animals, and you may use these things the Lord your God gives you from your enemies.
15. Do this to all the cities that are far away, that do not belong to the nations nearby.
16. But leave nothing alive in the cities of the land the Lord your God is giving you.
17. Completely destroy these people: the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded.
18. Otherwise, they will teach you what they do for their gods, and if you do these hateful things, you will sin against the Lord your God.
19. If you surround and attack a city for a long time, trying to capture it, do not destroy its trees with an ax. You can eat the fruit from the trees, but do not cut them down. These trees are not the enemy, so don’t make war against them.
20. But you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build devices to attack the city walls, until the city is captured.