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Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations

16 As for the cities of these peoples that[a] the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing[b] to survive.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 20:16 tn The antecedent of the relative pronoun is “cities.”
  2. Deuteronomy 20:16 tn Heb “any breath.”

16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.(A)

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