8. The officials will continue to address the troops, stating: "Is there anyone here who is afraid and discouraged? He can leave and go back to his house; otherwise, his comrades might lose courage just as he has."
9. Once the officials have completed their speech to the troops, the army commanders will assume leadership of the forces.
10. When you approach a city to fight against it, you should first extend peaceful terms to it.
11. If the city responds with peaceful terms and surrenders to you, then all the people in the city will serve you as forced laborers.
12. However, if the city does not negotiate peacefully with you but makes war against you, you may attack it.
13. The Lord your God will hand it over to you; you must kill all the city’s males with the sword.
14. However, you can take for yourselves the women, the children, the animals, and all that is in the city—all its plunder. You can then enjoy your enemies’ plunder, which the Lord your God has given you.