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And the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man [is there that is] fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brethren's heart should faint as well as his heart.
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And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
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When thou comest nigh to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
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And it shall be, if it shall make thee answer of peace, and open to thee, then it shall be, [that] all the people [that are] found therein, shall be tributaries to thee, and they shall serve thee.
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And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
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And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thy hands, thou shalt smite every male of it with the edge of the sword:
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But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, [even] all the spoil of it, shalt thou take to thyself: and thou shalt eat the spoil of thy enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
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Thus shalt thou do to all the cities [which are] very distant from thee, which [are] not of the cities of these nations.
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But of the cities of these people which the LORD thy God doth give thee [for] an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
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But thou shalt utterly destroy them, [namely], the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
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That they may not teach you to do after all their abominations which they have done to their gods; so would ye sin against the LORD your God.