Deuteronomy 20:16-18

New American Standard Bible 1995

^16 (A)Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. ¹⁷ But you shall ^[a]utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has commanded you, ¹⁸ so that they may not teach you to do ^(B)according to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would ^(C)sin against the Lord your God.