10 ¶ When thou comest near unto a city to fight against it, (A)thou shalt offer it peace.

11 And if it answer thee again [a]peaceably, and open unto thee, then let all the people that is found therein, be tributaries unto thee, and serve thee.

12 But if it will make no peace with thee, but make war against thee, then shalt thou besiege it.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 20:11 If it accept peace.

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