Deu 20:15-18 | ESV | STEP | Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here .

Deuteronomy 20:15-18

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 ^ain the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, 17 but ^byou shall devote them to complete destruction, ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)} the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded, 18 that ^dthey may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you ^esin against the Lord your God.