• Deuteronomy 20:19
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 19 “If you lay siege to a city in order to capture it and you have been fighting against it for many days, you should not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them. You may eat from them, but you should not cut them down.+ For should you besiege a tree of the field as you would a man?

  • Deuteronomy 20:19
    The Bible in Living English

    • 19 “When you besiege a city for a long time, attacking it to capture it, you shall not ravage its trees, using an ax on them, but eat from them and not cut them; for are the trees of the countryside human, to be besieged by you?

  • Deuteronomy 20:19
    American Standard Version

    • 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 wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of thee?

  • Deuteronomy 20:19
    King James Version

    • 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: