Deuteronomy 20:18-20

That they teach
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you not to do
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after all their abominations
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which they have done
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unto their gods
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so should ye sin
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against the LORD
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your God
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When thou shalt besiege
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a city
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a long
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time
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in making war
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against it to take
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it, thou shalt not destroy
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the trees
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thereof by forcing
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an axe
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against them: for thou mayest eat
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of them, and thou shalt not cut them down
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(for the tree
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of the field
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[is] man's
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[life]) to employ
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[them] in the siege
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{for the...: or, for, O man, the tree of the field is to be employed in the siege} {to employ...: Heb. to go from before thee}

Only the trees
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which thou knowest
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that they [be] not trees
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for meat
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thou shalt destroy
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and cut them down
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and thou shalt build
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bulwarks
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against the city
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that maketh
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war
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with thee, until it be subdued
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{it...: Heb. it come down}