7. ‘And who is the man who is engaged to a woman and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.’
8. “And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ‘Who is the man who is afraid and tender of heart? Let him go and return to his house, lest the heart of his brothers faint like his heart.’
9. “And it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint commanders of the divisions to lead the people.
10. “When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then you shall make a call for peace to it.
11. “And it shall be that if it accepts your call for peace, and shall open to you, then all the people found in it are to be your compulsory labour, and serve you.
12. “But if it does not make peace with you, and shall fight against you, then you shall besiege it,