10When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace.
11And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants.
12If however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on all sides:
13And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.
14But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.
15So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.
16But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:
