If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, you must not chop down its trees, for you may eat fruit from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!

For I know that after I die you will totally corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly before the Lord, inciting him to anger because of your actions.”

Then when many disasters and distresses overcome them this song will testify against them, for their descendants will not forget it. I know the intentions they have in mind today, even before I bring them to the land I have promised.”

But if you seek the Lord your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.

You have been taught that the Lord alone is God – there is no other besides him.

If you think, “These nations are more numerous than I – how can I dispossess them?”

You must not tremble in their presence, for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a great and awesome God.

Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God disciplines you.

I am speaking to you because you are the ones who saw all the great deeds of the Lord!

You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.

As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.

Furthermore, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful to observe these statutes.

for the Lord your God goes with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies to give you victory.”

When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.

In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before the Lord.

When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the Lord your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,

If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and has sexual relations with her,

for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.

Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes her and they are discovered.

When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure.