SIDE BY SIDE
Compare Deuteronomy 20:19
← Back to chapterChoose translations to compare. Your current translation stays visible; selections follow you to the next passage.
LEESER Deuteronomy 20:19
When thou besiegest a city a long time, to make war against it to capture it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them; for of them thou mayest eat, and thou shalt not cut them down, [for man liveth of the trees of the field,] to employ them in thy siege;
KJV Deuteronomy 20:19
When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field [is] man's [life]) to employ [them] in the siege:
Swipe left for the next verse, right for the previous verse.