Deuteronomy 20:20 
KonteksNETBible | However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, 1 and you may use it to build siege works 2 against the city that is making war with you until that city falls. |
NASB © biblegateway Deu 20:20 |
"Only the trees which you know are not fruit trees you shall destroy and cut down, that you may construct siegeworks against the city that is making war with you until it falls. |
HCSB | But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce food. You may cut them down to build siege works against the city that is waging war with you, until it falls. |
LEB | You may destroy trees that you know are not fruit trees. You may cut them down and use them in your blockade until you capture the city. |
NIV © biblegateway Deu 20:20 |
However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls. |
ESV | Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls. |
NRSV © bibleoremus Deu 20:20 |
You may destroy only the trees that you know do not produce food; you may cut them down for use in building siegeworks against the town that makes war with you, until it falls. |
REB | But you may destroy or cut down any trees that you know do not yield food, and use them in siege-works against the town that is at war with you, until it falls. |
NKJV © biblegateway Deu 20:20 |
"Only the trees which you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, to build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued. |
KJV | Only the trees which thou knowest that they [be] not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. |
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[+] Bhs. Inggris
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NASB © biblegateway Deu 20:20 |
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NET [draft] ITL | However <07535> , you may chop down <03772> any tree <06086> you know <03045> is not <03808> suitable for food <03978> , and you may use it to build <01129> siege <04692> works against <05921> the city <05892> that <0834> is making <06213> war <04421> with <05973> you until <05704> that city falls <03381> . |
HEBREW |
NETBible | However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, 1 and you may use it to build siege works 2 against the city that is making war with you until that city falls. |
NET Notes |
1 tn Heb “however, a tree which you know is not a tree for food you may destroy and cut down.” 2 tn Heb “[an] enclosure.” The term מָצוֹר (matsor) may refer to encircling ditches or to surrounding stagings. See R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 238. |