Deu 20:16-17 | ESV | STEP | But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance , you shall save alive nothing that breathes ,

Deuteronomy 20:16-17

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,