10. When, at any time, you approach a city to fight against it, you shall first offer peace to it.
11. If they receive it, and open the gates to you, then all the people who are in it shall be saved, and they shall serve you by paying tribute.
12. But if they are not willing to enter into an agreement, and they begin to act against you in warfare, then you shall besiege it.
13. And when the Lord your God will have delivered it into your hands, you shall strike down anyone who is in it, of the male gender, with the edge of the sword,
14. but not the women and young children, nor the cattle and the other things that are within the city. And you shall divide all the plunder to the soldiers, and you shall eat the spoils from your enemies, which the Lord your God will give to you.
15. So shall you do to all the cities which are at a great distance from you, those which are not among the cities that you shall receive as a possession.
16. But among those cities which shall be given to you, you shall not permit anyone at all to live.
17. Instead, you shall put them to death with the edge of the sword, specifically: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite, the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you.
18. Otherwise, they may teach you to do all the abominations which they have committed for their own gods. And then you would sin against the Lord your God.
19. When you will have besieged a city for a long time, and you will have encircled it with fortifications, so that you may fight against it, you shall not cut down trees from which one is able to eat, neither shall you cause devastation with axes to the surrounding region. For it is a tree, and not a man. It is not able to increase the number of those who are fighting against you.
20. But if there are any trees which are not fruitful, but are wild, and if these are fit for other uses, then cut them down, and make machines, until you have captured the city that is contending against you."