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Deuteronomy 20:19-20

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20:19 If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, 1  you must not chop down its trees, 2  for you may eat fruit 3  from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it! 4  20:20 However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, 5  and you may use it to build siege works 6  against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.

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[20:19]  1 tn Heb “to fight against it to capture it.”

[20:19]  2 tn Heb “you must not destroy its trees by chopping them with an iron” (i.e., an ax).

[20:19]  3 tn Heb “you may eat from them.” The direct object is not expressed; the word “fruit” is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[20:19]  4 tn Heb “to go before you in siege.”

[20:20]  5 tn Heb “however, a tree which you know is not a tree for food you may destroy and cut down.”

[20:20]  6 tn Heb “[an] enclosure.” The term מָצוֹר (matsor) may refer to encircling ditches or to surrounding stagings. See R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 238.



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