10. “When you go to attack a city, first give its people a chance to surrender.
11. If they open the gates and surrender, they are all to become your slaves and do forced labour for you.
12. But if the people of that city will not surrender, but choose to fight, surround it with your army.
13. Then, when the Lord your God lets you capture the city, kill every man in it.
14. You may, however, take for yourselves the women, the children, the livestock, and everything else in the city. You may use everything that belongs to your enemies. The Lord has given it to you.
15. That is how you are to deal with those cities that are far away from the land you will settle in.
16. “But when you capture cities in the land that the Lord your God is giving you, kill everyone.
17. Completely destroy all the people: the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the Lord ordered you to do.
18. Kill them, so that they will not make you sin against the Lord by teaching you to do all the disgusting things that they do in the worship of their gods.
19. “When you are trying to capture a city, do not cut down its fruit trees, even though the siege lasts a long time. Eat the fruit, but do not destroy the trees; the trees are not your enemies.