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Deuteronomy 20:19

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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 

Genesis 44:30

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44:30 “So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us – his very life is bound up in his son’s life. 5 

Luke 12:15

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12:15 Then 6  he said to them, “Watch out and guard yourself from 7  all types of greed, 8  because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
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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.”

[44:30]  5 tn Heb “his life is bound up in his life.”

[12:15]  6 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[12:15]  7 tn See L&N 13.154 for this use of the middle voice of φυλάσσω (fulassw) in this verse.

[12:15]  8 tn Or “avarice,” “covetousness.” Note the warning covers more than money and gets at the root attitude – the strong desire to acquire more and more possessions and experiences.



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