The <sc>Lordsc> your God will deliver it over to you<n id="1" /> and you must kill every single male by the sword.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the <sc>Lordsc> your God allows you to prevail<n id="1" /> and you take prisoners,

<p class="poetry">Surely he loves the people;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all your holy ones<n id="2" /> are in your power.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">And they sit<n id="4" /> at your feet,p> <p class="poetry">each receiving<n id="5" /> your words.p>

He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory.<n id="1" /> Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.

you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money,<n id="1" /> and travel to the place the <sc>Lordsc> your God chooses for himself.

When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand,<n id="1" /> but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor&#8217;s ripe grain.p>

<p class="bodytext">Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon,<n id="1" /> and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!

But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the <sc>Lordsc> our<n id="1" /> God had made him obstinate<n id="2" /> and stubborn<n id="3" /> so that he might deliver him over to you<n id="4" /> this very day.

The <sc>Lordsc>, however, said to me, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid of him because I have already given him, his whole army,<n id="1" /> and his land to you. You will do to him exactly what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon.&#8221;

You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment.<n id="1" /> Then the <sc>Lordsc> will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.