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Deuteronomy 20:20

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20 The exception can be those trees which don't produce food; you can chop them down and use the timbers to build siege engines against the town that is resisting you until it falls.
20 However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.
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