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Deuteronomy 20:19The Bible in Living English
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19 “When you besiege a city for a long time, attacking it to capture it, you shall not ravage its trees, using an ax on them, but eat from them and not cut them; for are the trees of the countryside human, to be besieged by you?
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Deuteronomy 20:19American Standard Version
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19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of thee?
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Deuteronomy 20:19The Emphasized Bible
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19 When thou shalt besiege a city for many days to fight against it, to take it thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by wielding against them an axe, when of them thou mightest eat, them therefore shalt thou not cut down,—for, Is the tree of the field a man, that it should enter because of thee into the siege?
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Deuteronomy 20:19King James Version
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19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:
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