Deuteronomy 20:16
However, 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.
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Deuteronomy 7:1-4, 16
When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations--the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you-- . . .

Numbers 21:2, 3, 35
So Israel made a vow to the LORD: "If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will completely destroy their cities." . . .

Numbers 33:52
you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

Joshua 6:17-21
Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent. . . .

Joshua 9:24, 27
The Gibeonites answered, "Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and wipe out all its inhabitants before you. So we greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we have done this. . . .

Joshua 10:28, 40
On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and struck it down with the sword, along with its king. He completely destroyed it and everyone in it, leaving no survivors. So he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho. . . .

Joshua 11:11
The Israelites struck down everyone in Hazor with the sword, utterly destroying them. Nothing that breathed remained, and Joshua burned down Hazor itself.

Joshua 11:12, 14
Joshua captured all these kings and their cities and struck them down with the sword. He utterly destroyed them, as Moses the LORD's servant had commanded. . . .

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
"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.

King James Bible
But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

International Standard Version
"You are not to leave even one person alive in the cities of these nations that the LORD your God is about to give you as an inheritance.

NET Bible
As for the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.
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