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10 “When you approach a city to fight against it, you must offer it peace.[a] 11 And then[b] if they accept your terms of peace[c] and they surrender to you,[d] and then[e] all the people inhabiting it[f] shall be forced labor for you, and they shall serve you. 12 But if they do not accept your terms of peace[g] and they want to make war with you, then you shall lay siege against it.[h]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 20:10 Literally “you should call it for peace”
  2. Deuteronomy 20:11 Literally “And it will happen”
  3. Deuteronomy 20:11 Literally “if peace they reply to you”
  4. Deuteronomy 20:11 Literally “they open to you”
  5. Deuteronomy 20:11 Literally “and it will happen”
  6. Deuteronomy 20:11 Literally “being found in it”
  7. Deuteronomy 20:12 Literally “not they make peace with you”
  8. Deuteronomy 20:12 That is, the city