1 When you go to fight and you see many men and horse carts, do not be scared. God is with you. God took you out of Egypt. ️⚔️ 2 When you get ready to fight, the priest comes and talks to you all. ⚖️️⚔️ 3 The priest says, “Listen, Israel. Today you are close to a fight. Do not be scared. Do not shake. Do not run.” ️ 4 God goes with you. God fights for you. God will save you. ✝️️⚔️ 5 The leaders say, “Did you build a new house? Go home. Live in it first.” ➡️ 6 “Did you plant a grape farm? Go home. Eat the grapes first.” ➡️ 7 “Did you say you will marry a woman? Go home. Marry her.” ➡️ 8 “Are you very scared? Go home, so you do not make your friends scared too.” ➡️ 9 After the leaders talk, they pick army leaders to lead the people. ✈️✈️️ 10 When you go near a town to fight, first say, “We want peace.” ️️ 11 If the town says yes to peace and opens the gate, the people will live and work for you. ️ 12 If the town says no to peace and wants to fight, you will fight that town. ⚔️️ 13 God will help you win. The men in that town will die. ✝️⚔️ 14 You may keep the women, kids, and animals. You may take the things in the town for you. 15 Do this to towns far away. Do not do this to the towns in this land. ️️↔️ 16 In the towns in this land that God gives you, do not let anyone stay alive. ️ 17 Do this to these groups: Hittite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, Jebusite. God told you. ️ 18 Do this so they do not teach you bad ways. Do not learn to pray to other gods. Do not do wrong to God. 19 When you fight near a town for a long time, do not cut fruit trees. You can eat the fruit. Trees are not people. 20 But you may cut trees that make no fruit. Use the wood to build tools to take the town. ️️