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Passage Lookup: Deuteronomy 20:19-20

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Deuteronomy 20:19
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"When you besiege a city for a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, so you shall not cut them down. For (F1)is the tree of the field a human, that it should (F2)be besieged by you?
Footnotes:  (F1) - Read as interrogative with ancient versions; MT the tree of the field is man; (F2) - Lit come before you in the siege;
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Deuteronomy 20:20
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"Only the trees that you know (F1)are not fruit trees you shall destroy and cut down, so that you may construct siegeworks against the city that is making war against you until it falls.
Footnotes:  (F1) - Lit that it is not a tree of food;
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