^{11 Ref} And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants.

¹² If however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on all sides:

^{13 Ref} And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.

^{14 Ref} But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

¹⁵ So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.

^{16 Ref} But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death: