20:16 As for the cities of these peoples that 2 the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing 3 to survive.
1 tn Heb “justice, justice.” The repetition is emphatic; one might translate as “pure justice” or “unadulterated justice” (cf. NLT “true justice”).
2 tn The antecedent of the relative pronoun is “cities.”
3 tn Heb “any breath.”