World English Bible
Deuteronomy 20:16
“But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 20
but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
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Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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