Deuteronomy 20:13-16

English Standard Version

¹³ And when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, ^(A)you shall put all its males to the sword, ^14 (B)but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you ^(C)shall take as plunder for yourselves. And ^(D)you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you. ¹⁵ Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here. ¹⁶ But ^(E)in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,