Deuteronomy 20:10-12

Jubilee Bible 2000

¹⁰ ¶ When thou comest near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

¹¹ And it shall be, if it makes thee an answer of peace and opens unto thee, that all the people that are found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

¹² And if it will make no peace with thee but will make war against thee, and if thou should besiege it,