Deuteronomy 20:11-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 If it agrees to your terms of peace and lets you in, all the people to be found in it shall serve you in forced labor. 12 (A)But if it refuses to make peace with you and instead joins battle with you, lay siege to it, 13 and when the Lord, your God, delivers it into your power, put every male in it to the sword;
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