Deuteronomy 20:19-20
1599 Geneva Bible
19 ¶ When thou hast besieged a city long time, and made war against it to take it, destroy not the trees thereof, by smiting an axe into them: for thou mayest eat of them: therefore thou shalt not cut them down to further thee in the siege, (for the [a]tree of the field is man’s life).
20 Only those trees which thou knowest are not for meat, those shalt thou destroy and cut down, and make forts against the city that maketh war with thee until thou subdue it.
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- Deuteronomy 20:19 Some read, For man shall be instead of the tree of the field, to come out in the siege against thee.
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