Deuteronomy 20:15
New International Version
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

New Living Translation
“But these instructions apply only to distant towns, not to the towns of the nations in the land you will enter.

English Standard Version
Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.

Berean Standard Bible
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

King James Bible
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

New King James Version
Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

New American Standard Bible
This is what you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby.

NASB 1995
“Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby.

NASB 1977
“Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby.

Legacy Standard Bible
Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby.

Amplified Bible
That is what you shall do to all the cities that are very far away from you, which are not among the cities of these nations nearby [which you are to dispossess].

Christian Standard Bible
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and are not among the cities of these nations.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and are not among the cities of these nations.

American Standard Version
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
So do to all the towns that are very distant from you that were not from towns of these nations.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thus shalt thou do to all the cities that are very far off from thee, not being of the cities of these nations which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit their land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from thee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in possession.

English Revised Version
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is what you must do to all the cities that are far away which don't belong to the nations nearby.

Good News Translation
That is how you are to deal with those cities that are far away from the land you will settle in.

International Standard Version
Do this to all the cities that are distant from you—that is, to those cities that are not in neighboring nations."

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Literal Standard Version
So you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Majority Standard Bible
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

New American Bible
That is how you shall deal with any city at a considerable distance from you, which does not belong to these nations here.

NET Bible
This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

New Revised Standard Version
Thus you shall treat all the towns that are very far from you, which are not towns of the nations here.

New Heart English Bible
Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus shalt thou do to all the cities which are very distant from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

World English Bible
Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Young's Literal Translation
So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

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Context
Laws of Warfare
14But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you. 15This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby. 16However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:14
But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city--all its spoil--you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 20:16
However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.


Treasury of Scripture

Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

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Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
This is how
כֵּ֤ן (kên)
Adverb
Strong's 3651: So -- thus

you are to treat
תַּעֲשֶׂה֙ (ta·‘ă·śeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

all
לְכָל־ (lə·ḵāl)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the cities
הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים (he·‘ā·rîm)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 5892: Excitement

that are far away
הָרְחֹקֹ֥ת (hā·rə·ḥō·qōṯ)
Article | Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 7350: Remote, of place, time, precious

from you
מִמְּךָ֖ (mim·mə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of

and do not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

belong to the
הָאֵ֖לֶּה (hā·’êl·leh)
Article | Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

nations nearby.
הַגּֽוֹיִם־ (hag·gō·w·yim-)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts


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