Deuteronomy 20:15
Modern Translations
New International Version
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

New Living Translation
“But these instructions apply only to distant towns, not to the towns of the nations in the land you will enter.

English Standard Version
Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.

Berean Study Bible
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

New American Standard Bible
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 nearby.

NASB 1995
"Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby.

NASB 1977
“Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby.

Amplified Bible
That is what you shall do to all the cities that are very far away from you, which are not among the cities of these nations nearby [which you are to dispossess].

Christian Standard Bible
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and are not among the cities of these nations.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and are not among the cities of these nations.

Good News Translation
That is how you are to deal with those cities that are far away from the land you will settle in.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is what you must do to all the cities that are far away which don't belong to the nations nearby.

International Standard Version
Do this to all the cities that are distant from you—that is, to those cities that are not in neighboring nations."

NET Bible
This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

New King James Version
Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

King James 2000 Bible
Thus shall you do unto all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

New Heart English Bible
Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

World English Bible
Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

American King James Version
Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

American Standard Version
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

A Faithful Version
So you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Darby Bible Translation
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities that are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

English Revised Version
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus shalt thou do to all the cities which are very distant from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Thus shalt thou do vnto all ye cities, which are a great way off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations here.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Thus shalt thou do vnto all the cities which are a great way of from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Thus shalt thou do vnto all the cities, that are very farre from the, and are not of the cities of these nacions.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Thus thou shalt doo vnto all the cities whiche are a greate waye of from the ad not of the cities of these nacions.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
So you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Young's Literal Translation
So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Smith's Literal Translation
Thus shalt thou do to all the cities greatly far off from thee which are not of the cities of these nations.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from thee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in possession.

Catholic Public Domain Version
So shall you do to all the cities which are at a great distance from you, those which are not among the cities that you shall receive as a possession.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
So do to all the towns that are very distant from you that were not from towns of these nations.

Lamsa Bible
Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thus shalt thou do to all the cities that are very far off from thee, not being of the cities of these nations which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit their land.
















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