6. And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
7. And is there any man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back 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, ‘Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.’
9. And when the officers have finished speaking to the people, then commanders shall be appointed at the head of the people.
10. “When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it.
11. And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you.
12. But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it.
13. And when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword,
14. but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you.