1"And when you go out to battle against your enemies and you shall see horses and chariots, a people that are more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them, because LORD JEHOVAH your God goes with you who brought you up from the land of Egypt. 2And whenever you approach to battle, let the Priest approach and he will say to the people: 3Hear Israel, you are coming today to battle against your enemies; let not your heart be defeated and do not be afraid and do not tremble and do not be terrified before them; 4Because LORD JEHOVAH your God goes with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and he fought for your persons with your enemies and he saved you'. 5And the Scribes will say to the people: 'Who is the man who built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him return, let him go to his house, lest he be killed in war and another man will dedicate it. 6And who is the man who has planted a vineyard and has not pressed out from it? Let him return, let him go to his house, lest he will be killed in war and another man will press it out. 7And who is the man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him return, let him go to his house, lest he will be killed in war and another man will take her'. 8And the Scribes shall continue and they shall say to the people: 'Who is the man whose heart is afraid and fainthearted? Let him return, let him go to his house, lest he will subvert the heart of his brothers as his own'. 9And when the Scribes have finished speaking to the people, the Commanders of the armies shall stand at the front of the people.

10And when you approach to a town to fight against it, proclaim peace upon it. 11And if it will answer you, 'Peace!', and it will open up to you, all the people who are found in it shall be Servants to you, paying taxes, and they shall work for you. 12And if it will not make peace with you and it will make war with you, besiege it: 13And LORD JEHOVAH your God shall hand it over into your hands; kill all of its males by the mouth of the sword: 14Only women and little ones and livestock and all that is in the city and all the loot, pillage for yourself, and eat from the spoils of your enemies that LORD JEHOVAH your God has given to you. 15So do to all the towns that are very distant from you that were not from towns of these nations. 16Only from towns of these nations that LORD JEHOVAH your God gives to you as an inheritance, no breathing thing shall live: 17But certainly put them to the sword: the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Yebusites, as LORD JEHOVAH your God commanded you: 18That they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable things that they were doing for their gods, and you would sin before LORD JEHOVAH your God.

19And when you besiege a town for many days to fight against it and to conquer it, you shall not destroy its trees and do not lift up iron on them and cut them down, because you eat from them, for the trees of the field are not like a son of man so that they will flee from before you in trouble: 20But destroy and cut down only a tree which you know is not a tree for food, and build mounds against the town that makes war with you until you conquer it.”