| New American Standard Bible 1995 | Berean Study Bible |
| 1"When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is with you. | 1When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you. |
| 2"When you are approaching the battle, the priest shall come near and speak to the people. | 2When you are about to go into battle, the priest is to come forward and address the army, |
| 3"He shall say to them, 'Hear, O Israel, you are approaching the battle against your enemies today. Do not be fainthearted. Do not be afraid, or panic, or tremble before them, | 3saying to them, “Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be alarmed or terrified because of them. |
| 4for the LORD your God is the one who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.' | 4For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.” |
| 5"The officers also shall speak to the people, saying, 'Who is the man that has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him depart and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would dedicate it. | 5Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it. |
| 6'Who is the man that has planted a vineyard and has not begun to use its fruit? Let him depart and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would begin to use its fruit. | 6Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit. |
| 7'And who is the man that is engaged to a woman and has not married her? Let him depart and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would marry her.' | 7Has any man become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man marry her.” |
| 8"Then the officers shall speak further to the people and say, 'Who is the man that is afraid and fainthearted? Let him depart and return to his house, so that he might not make his brothers' hearts melt like his heart.' | 8Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.” |
| 9"When the officers have finished speaking to the people, they shall appoint commanders of armies at the head of the people. | 9When the officers have finished addressing the army, they are to appoint commanders to lead it. |
| 10"When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace. | 10When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace. |
| 11"If it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor and shall serve you. | 11If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you. |
| 12"However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. | 12But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city. |
| 13"When the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword. | 13When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword. |
| 14"Only the women and the children and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the LORD your God has given you. | 14But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you. |
| 15"Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby. | 15This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby. |
| 16"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. | 16However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes. |
| 17"But you shall 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, | 17For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you, |
| 18so that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would sin against the LORD your God. | 18so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the LORD your God. |
| 19"When you besiege a city a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you? | 19When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them? |
| 20"Only the trees which you know are not fruit trees you shall destroy and cut down, that you may construct siegeworks against the city that is making war with you until it falls. | 20But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls. |
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