# Deuteronomy 20:19

> The King James Version (1769) is in the public domain in the United States.

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- Book: [Deuteronomy](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy)
- Chapter: [Deuteronomy 20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/20)
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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: