¹⁹ “If^[a] you besiege a town for many days to make war against it in order to seize it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them,^[b] for you may eat from them,^[c] and so you must not cut them^[d] down. Are the trees of the field humans that they should come in siege against you?^{[e] 20} Only^[f] the trees^[g] that you know are not fruit trees^[h] you may destroy and you may cut down, and you may build siege works against that city that is making war with you until it falls.”^[i]