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Deuteronomy 20:19
King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible
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 (note: Heb. to go from before thee) in the siege:
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