8The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brother`s heart melt as his heart.
9It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of hosts at the head of the people.
10When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
11It shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.
12If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:
13and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
14but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
