¹⁰ “When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall ^[a]offer it terms of peace. ¹¹ And if it ^[b]agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your ^(A)forced labor and serve you. ¹² However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. ¹³ When the Lord your God gives it into your hand, ^(B)you shall strike all the ^[c]men in it with the edge of the sword. ¹⁴ However, the women, the children, ^(C)the animals, and everything that is in the city, all of its spoils, you shall take as plunder for yourself; and you shall ^[d]use the spoils of your enemies which the Lord your God has given you. ¹⁵ This is what you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations ^[e]nearby. ^16 (D)Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave anything that breathes alive. ¹⁷ Instead, you shall ^[f]utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you, ¹⁸ so that they will not teach you to do ^[g](E)all the same detestable practices of theirs which they have done for their gods, ^[h]by which you would ^(F)sin against the Lord your God.