Deu 20:16-18 | NASB2020 | STEP | Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance , you shall not leave anything that breathes alive .

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

Deuteronomy 20:16-18

16 ^aOnly in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave anything that breathes alive. 17 Instead, 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, just as the Lord your God has commanded you, 18 so that they will not teach you to do ^{▼▼Lit according to all the detestable
,} ^dall the same detestable practices of theirs which they have done for their gods, ^{▼▼Lit and you would}by which you would ^fsin against the Lord your God.