Deu 20:16-18 | NASB1995 | STEP | “ 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 .

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

Deuteronomy 20:16-18

16 ^a“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. 17 “But you shall ^{▼▼ Or put them under the ban}utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has commanded you, 18 so that they may not teach you to do ^caccording to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would ^dsin against the Lord your God.