¶ When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 20:19 · retained source text
¶ 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.
1611 marginal noteOr, for, O man the tree of the field is to be employed in the siege.
1611 marginal noteHeb. to goe from before thee.