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 (7for the tree of the field is man's life) 8to employ them in the siege:
¶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:
7:
Or, for, O man, the tree of the field is to be employed in the siege.
8:
Heb. to go from before thee.