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Deuteronomy 21:10
Deuteronomy 21:10 is verse 10 of Deuteronomy chapter 21, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive,
King James Version
When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,
World English Bible
When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands and you carry them away captive,
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Deuteronomy 21:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible
8 Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.
9 So you shall purge from among you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
10 When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive,
11 if you see a beautiful woman among them, and you desire her and want to take her as your wife,
12 then you shall bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 20:10When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.
Deuteronomy 20:11If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.
Deuteronomy 20:12But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.
Deuteronomy 20:13When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
Deuteronomy 20:14But 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.
Deuteronomy 20:15This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
Deuteronomy 20:16However, 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.