Deu 20:11-16 | ESV | STEP | And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you.

Deuteronomy 20:11-16

11 And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you. 12 But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. 13 And when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, ^ayou shall put all its males to the sword, 14 ^bbut the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you ^cshall take as plunder for yourselves. And ^dyou shall enjoy 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 cities of the nations here. 16 But ^ein the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,