Chapter 20 Concerning Warfare

When you go forth to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them. When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. And if its answer to you is peace and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and serve you. But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall be siege it until it falls. The Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Parazites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the