Bible verse
When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
Deuteronomy 20:13 · BSB
The verses around it, from Deuteronomy 20.
9 When the officers have finished addressing the army, they are to appoint commanders to lead it.
10 When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.
11 If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.
12 But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.
13 When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
14 But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
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.
17 For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,
KJV
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
ASV
and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
ERV
and when the LORD thy God delivereth it into thine hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
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