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Deuteronomy 20:16-17
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16 But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, 17 but you shall devote them to complete destruction, [1] the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded,

Footnotes

[1] 20:17 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)

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