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

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

C'est ainsi que tu agiras à l'égard de toutes les villes qui sont très éloignées de toi, et qui ne font point partie des villes de ces nations-ci.

KJV

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

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    s like: so also every man him that is nearest to himself." Therefore the Lord unsuitably commanded ( Dt. 20:13-19 ) that all the inhabitants of a captured hostile city were to be slain, but that the fruit-trees should not be cut down. Objection 5: Further, every one should prefer…

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