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Laws of Warfare

Deuteronomy 20:15

In 11 translations

BSB
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
KJV
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
WEB
Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
ASV
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
LSV
So you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
YLT
So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
DBY
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities that are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
DRC
So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from thee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in possession.
GNV
Thus shalt thou do vnto all ye cities, which are a great way off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations here.
JPS
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
LXXE
Thus shalt thou do to all the cities that are very far off from thee, not being of the cities of these nations which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit their land.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
כֵּ֤ן תַּעֲשֶׂה֙ לְכָל־הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים הָרְחֹקֹ֥ת מִמְּךָ֖ מְאֹ֑ד אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹא־מֵעָרֵ֥י הַגּֽוֹיִם־הָאֵ֖לֶּה הֵֽנָּה׃
LXX-Br
Οὕτως ποιήσεις πάσας τὰς πόλεις τὰς μακρὰν οὔσας σου σφόδρα, οὐχὶ ἐκ τῶν πόλεων τῶν ἐθνῶν τούτων,

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From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

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