Deuteronomy 20:18
“That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they haue done vnto their gods, so should ye sinne against the Lord your God.”
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Deuteronomy 20:18 Context
16But of the cities of these people which the Lord thy God doth giue thee for an inheritance, thou shalt saue aliue nothing that breatheth: 17But thou shalt vtterly destroy them, namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee: 18That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they haue done vnto their gods, so should ye sinne against the Lord your God. 19¶ When thou shalt besiege a citie a long time, in making warre against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof, by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eate of them, and thou shalt not cut them downe ( for the tree of the field is mans life) to employ them in the siege. 20Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meate, thou shalt destroy, and cut them downe, and thou shalt build bulwarkes against the city that maketh warre with thee, vntil it be subdued.
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That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
- King James Version
so that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would sin against the LORD your God.
- New American Standard Version (1995)