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"When you march up to attack a city, first offer it terms of peace. (Deuteronomy 20, 10)
"That is how you shall deal with any city at a considerable distance from you, which does not belong to the peoples of this land. (Deuteronomy 20, 15)
"When you are at war with a city and have to lay siege to it for a long time before you capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them. You may eat their fruit, but you must not cut down the trees. After all, are the trees of the field men, that they should be included in your siege? (Deuteronomy 20, 19)
However, those trees which you know are not fruit trees you may destroy, cutting them down to build siegeworks with which to reduce the city that is resisting you. (Deuteronomy 20, 20)
When it is established which city is nearest the corpse, the elders of that city shall take a heifer that has never been put to work as a draft animal under a yoke, (Deuteronomy 21, 3)
Then all the elders of that city nearest the corpse shall wash their hands over the heifer whose throat was cut in the wadi, (Deuteronomy 21, 6)
his father and mother shall have him apprehended and brought out to the elders at the gate of his home city, (Deuteronomy 21, 19)
where they shall say to those city elders, 'This son of ours is a stubborn and unruly fellow who will not listen to us; he is a glutton and a drunkard.' (Deuteronomy 21, 20)
the father and mother of the girl shall take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the elders at the city gate. (Deuteronomy 22, 15)
and now brings monstrous charges against her, saying: I did not find your daughter a virgin. But here is the evidence of my daughter's virginity!' And they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the city. (Deuteronomy 22, 17)
Then these city elders shall take the man and chastise him, (Deuteronomy 22, 18)
"If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, (Deuteronomy 22, 23)
