020:016 But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you
for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
020:017 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite,
the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite;
as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
020:018 that they not teach you to do after all their abominations,
which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against
Yahweh your God.
020:019 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war
against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees of it
by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them,
and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man,
that it should be besieged of you?
020:020 Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees
for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall
build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you,
until it fall.
021:001 If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives
you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known
who has struck him;
021:002 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall
measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain:
021:003 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man,
even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd,
which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn
in the yoke;
021:004 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a
valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown,
and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
021:005 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh
your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name
of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy
and every stroke be.
021:006 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man,
shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken
in the valley;
021:007 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood,
neither have our eyes seen it.
021:008 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed,
and don't allow innocent blood [to remain] in the midst
of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven them.
021:009 So shall you put away the innocent blood from the midst of you,
when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
021:010 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh
your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry
them away captive,
021:011 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have
a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;
021:012 then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall