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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.

About fourty thousand prepared for war, passed ouer before the LORD vnto battell, to the plaines of Iericho.

1611 marginal noteOr. ready armed.

And this is the cause why Ioshua did circumcise: all the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, euen all the men of warre, died in the wildernes by the way after they came out of Egypt.

For the children of Israel walked fourtie yeeres in the wildernesse, till all the people that were men of warre which came out of Egypt were consumed, because they obeyed not the voyce of the LORD, vnto whome the LORD sware that hee would not shew them the land which the LORD sware vnto their fathers, that he would giue vs, a land that floweth with milke & honie.

1611 marginal noteNum. 14.23.

And ye shall compasse the city, all yee men of warre, and goe round about the city once: thus shalt thou doe sixe dayes.