Deuteronomy 20:16
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
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.
In context
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,
18 so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 20:16 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- 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.
- KJV King James Version
- 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:
- WEB World English Bible
- But of the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
- ASV American Standard Version
- But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth;
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'Only, of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee [for] an inheritance, thou dost not keep alive any breathing;
- DBY Darby Translation
- But of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth,
- WBS Webster 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: