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And when thou goest out to battle against thine enemies and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them;
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¶ And it shall come to pass that when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the Priest shall approach,
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And they shall speak unto the people, and shall say: Hear, O Israel! Ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies; let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble; neither be ye terrified because of them;
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For YHVH, your Elohim, is He that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
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¶ And it shall come to pass that the officers shall speak unto the people, saying: Who is there that hath built a new house and hath not dedicateda it?Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.
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And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard and hath 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.
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And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife and hath not takena her? Let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle and another man be with her.
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And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say: What man is there that is fearful and faint of heart?
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Let him go and return unto his house, lest the heart of his brethren faint as well as his heart.
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And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
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¶ When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peacea unto it;
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And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace and open unto thee, then it shall be that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
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¶ And if it will make no peace with thee but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege them.
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And when YHVH, thy Elohim, hath delivered them into thine hands, thou shalt smite every malea thereof with the edge of the sword;
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But the womena, and the little onesb, and the cattlec, and alld that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies which YHVH, thy Elohim, hath given thee.
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Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
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¶ But of the cities of these people, which YHVH, thy Elohim, doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothinga that breatheth;
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But thou shalt utterly destroy them: namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites as YHVH, thy Elohim, hath commanded thee,
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That they do not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their elohima; so should ye sin against YHVH, your Elohim.
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And when thou shalt besiege a city a long time in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down to employ them in the siege;
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Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meata, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee until it be subdued.