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Then ye answered, and said vnto mee, Wee haue sinned against the LORD, we will goe vp and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded vs. And when ye had girded on euery man his weapons of warre, yee were ready to goe vp into the hill.

1611 marginal noteNum. 14.40.

And the space in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, vntill we were come ouer the brooke Zered, was thirtie and eight yeeres; vntill all the generation of the men of warre were wasted out from among the hoste, as the LORD sware vnto them.

¶ So it came to passe, when all the men of warre were consumed and dead from among the people,

¶ And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath giuen you this land to possesse it: ye shall passe ouer armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the warre.

1611 marginal noteHeb. sonnes of power.

1611 marginal noteNum. 32.20.

Or hath God assayed to goe and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signes, and by wonders, and by warre, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretehed out arme, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make warre against thee, then thou shalt besiege it.

¶ 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.

Only 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.

1611 marginal noteHebr. it come downe.

¶ When thou goest forth to warre against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath deliuered them into thine hands, & thou hast taken them captiue,

¶ When a man hath taken a new wife, he shal not goe out to warre, neither shall hee be charged with any businesse: but hee shall be free at home one yeere, and shall cheere vp his wife which he hath taken.

1611 marginal noteHebr. not any thing shall passe vpon him.

1611 marginal noteChap. 20.7.