14. Only the women and the little ones and the animals and all that is in the city, all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat of the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God has given thee.
15. Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these Gentiles.
16. Only of the cities of these peoples, which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breathes;
17. but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lord thy God has commanded thee,
18. that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they do unto their gods, lest ye should sin against the Lord your God.
19. 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 may eat of them; and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege.