Deuteronomy 20:19

New American Standard Bible

¹⁹ “When you besiege a city for a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, so you shall not cut them down. For ^[a]is the tree of the field a human, that it should ^[b]be besieged by you?