Deu 20:11-16 | NASB1995 | STEP | “ If it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor and shall serve you.

h Ex 23:31-33; Num 21:2, 3; Deut 7:1-5; Josh 11:14

Deuteronomy 20:11-16

11 “If it ^{▼▼ Lit answers peace}agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your ^bforced labor and shall serve you. 12 “However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. 13 “When the Lord your God gives it into your hand, ^cyou shall strike all the ^{▼▼ Lit males}men in it with the edge of the sword. 14 “Only the women and the children and ^ethe animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall ^{▼▼ Lit eat}use the spoil of your enemies which the Lord your God has given you. 15 “Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations ^{▼▼ Lit here}nearby. 16 ^h“Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.