11. If it accepts your terms and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves.
12. If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.
13. The Lord your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.
14. However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city – all its plunder – you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the Lord your God has given you.
15. This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.
16. As for the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.
17. Instead you must utterly annihilate them – the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites – just as the Lord your God has commanded you,
18. so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.
19. If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, you must not chop down its trees, for you may eat fruit from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!
20. However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, and you may use it to build siege works against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.